A superb polyphonic narrative in which such a messenger of Alexander the Great and one of his captives leave the confines of the Empire to rally Babylon where the great king dies under mysterious circumstances. Incessant back and forth between different points of this gigantic building that was the territory conquered by the famous Macedonian sort of multicultural patchwork that did not survive its founder and the lusts of his successors but also back and forth between the present and the past, between the height of the reign and demise of the present king and his world. All those who gravitated to his illustrious person come forth marked and sometimes even pay with their lives. Fluid writing, narrative and psychologically chiselled end! Recommended! A future literary prize?
