This is a novel about how an individuals actions determine the course of history. It is set in the same geographical place but in three different historical periods, 5th century (fall of the western Roman empire), 14th century (black death) and 20th century (Nazi-occupied France) and tells the three separate but interconnected stories.
These time periods are chosen deliberately to illustrate upheavals that people were facing at that time and how they deal with it. More precisely, it is a novel about 1500 years of anti-semitism in Western Europe and how some unscrupulous people exploited it for their own advantage. How to overcome hatred? It is not cool heads or intellectuals or wise people but love. If anything saves the world it is through love, love of nature, love of neighbors, love of women or man, love of everything.
posted by David
