Esta tetralogía se sumerge en el turbulento período de entreguerras, explorando complejas relaciones humanas y dilemas morales. Sigue los viajes de personajes que se esfuerzan por encontrar su lugar en un mundo sacudido por la agitación política y el drama personal. La serie ofrece una mirada profunda a la naturaleza humana y los cambios sociales, todo ello envuelto en una narrativa cautivadora. Es una historia de supervivencia, amor y pérdida durante una de las épocas más tumultuosas de la historia moderna.
Byzantium Endures, the first of the Pyat Quartet, introduces one of Michael Moorcock's most magnificent creations - Maxim Arturovitch Pyatnitski. Born in Kiev on the cusp of the twentieth century, he discovers the pleasures of sex and cocaine and glimpses a sophisticated world beyond his horizons before the storm of the October Revolution breaks.
Via a series of crises, self-hating Jew and cocaine addict Maxim Arturovitch Pyatnitski, also known as Pyat, makes his way from 1919 Bolshevik Russia to a Hollywood on the rise. Reissue.
The third novel of the Pyat quartet finds Maxim Arturovitch Pyatnitski scheming his way from New York to Hollywood, Cairo to Marrakesh, from cult success to the utter limits of sexual degradation, leaving a trail of mechanical and human wreckage as he crashes towards an appointment with the worst nightmare of this century.