About Under the dust
The ‘Praeter Imperfectus’ Trilogy resembles one of those unexpected plants that finds in
rubble the ideal humus in which to plant roots. In this case, the substratum is the result of the succession of innumerable sedimentations in which what remains of each era seems to have settled, that is, the version that has been handed down to us of what happened and what really happened, information that History reveals to those who are willing to plumb its depths, instead of merely investigating its surface. Beneath the apparent coherence lies a History contaminated by biased narratives, compromises and riddled with embarrassing gaps that has nothing to envy from the most visionary dystopian fantasies, a backdrop laden with suggestions, perfect for staging drama and intrigue. In the face of a historical narrative marred by so many human foibles, are we really sure we know the world we ‘know’?
What do the appearances of a world founded on deception, the most poisonous fruit of human ingenuity, conceal from us?
‘Under the Dust’ and the following two volumes ‘The Last Daughter’ and ‘Dark Roots’ draw their inspiration from the enigmas guarded by the region of Titicaca and Tiahuanaco. The curious and anomalous initial event resembles the negligible summit of what will end up turning out to be an immense iceberg, the hidden part of which sinks into the ocean of a distant past, in which are suspended secrets and deceptions that over the centuries have flooded the history of humanity with blood.
A fascinating journey that oscillates between the boundless Andean highlands and a decadent Europe that is inexorably sliding into the abyss of two terrifying conflicts.
“Under the Dust”
The traces of a mysterious and indomitable female protagonist lead to an unimaginable past, where the most shocking secret is buried. The truth the world was not meant to know….
Titicaca, 1901: the gloomy oblivion descended on the boundless empires of the past has
failed to silence all the ghosts of such a dark era. And when the striking resemblance
between a young woman sighted on the shore of the lake and the woman portrayed in an
ancient painting casually brings to the surface an affair buried for centuries, the barriers of time fall, shaking the foundations of a power consolidated over the centuries.
With the same, apparent incoherence of a dream, insignificant and seemingly random details combine, outlining a pattern that with the passage of time takes on increasingly worrying connotations. The looming of an inexorable threat unleashes a search to the limits of the impossible, on the faint traces of a woman as defiladed and elusive as a ghost.
The Machiavellian protagonist will cross his path with an enigmatic and beautiful woman who appears to belong to another era: it is an encounter that will mark the destiny of both. When the past resurfaces, opening up fearful cracks in the history the world knows, a man devoured by ambition sees a glimmer of a power that has no limits.
It is only the beginning of a vertiginous journey, balanced on a thread woven of suspicions and forebodings, stretched over the black abyss of a past on which confused memories, poignant lost ties, and untold nightmares float. Echoes of a remote past, too distant to be reached and understood, will begin to drift, silent and secluded, against the background of events, leading the protagonists into an unimaginable world, inexorably distancing them from all certainty.
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