Island of the World

Michael O’Brien, an honourable author with a Christian background, best known for his recent novels “Eclipse of the Sun” and “Plague journal", who is also an honourable painter, illustrator of his own covers, in his 800 pages work “Island of the World” tells the story of Josip Lasta, a man who grows up in the turbulent time of the Second World War and who lives in "communist" Yugoslavia. As Lasta’s life goes by, the region lives important events and the hero soon finds himself in front of the key moments of his life and of the most challenging tests of his soul.
O’Brien thinks that the western civilisation has come to its sunset and that we are threaten by new Totalitarianism. He fights against the uniformity of the world, and he insists on the value of human life.
I am intrigued. Gotta read this book...

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