Description
Three men, a child, a girl walking through the desert. An extraordinary astral alignment. And the light of great hope.
These are terrible and wondrous times, between the deserts and the fertile lands of the Near East. Although the great Roman Empire seems unbeatable, new forces press at its borders and humanity begins to hope for the advent of a new era. When his city is destroyed by the bandits of the raider Balthasar, Nabu is a lonely and terrified child. He is saved by the old priest Melkhior, now blind but able to read the trajectories of the stars. Melkhior teaches Nabu that the Just “places the heart as a guard of the soul” and follows the Thought of Good. His caravan – which also includes Gasphar, a young wounded warrior, and the courageous Yumah – is traveling to Palestine ruled by Governor Herod because an extraordinary alignment of planets indicates that the God of Light, bearer of peace, was born there. But many trials await them before their eyes and hearts can truly open to hope. Melkhior, Gasphar, and Balthasar are the “Magi from the East” mentioned in some verses of the Gospel of Matthew. The star “that they saw rise and that went before them” is the exceptional conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn in the constellation of Pisces, which occurred three times right at the time when, in a cave, a carpenter named Joseph and his young wife Miryam gave birth to their child. Emmanuel Exitu takes the Magi out of the plaster of the nativity scene and tells their possible reality as human beings immersed in a time of chaos and waiting. He sets out alongside them through the desert, along the three ages of life, following the star of a hope greater than all thoughts, and gifts us with a surprising novel of adventure and love.
