Cherudek
core novel 1997 Nicolas Eymerich
Record
| First published | 1997 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  IT |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.95 (629 ratings, collected 2026-11-04) |
| Internal chronology | 5 |
Synopsis
In 1360, during the Hundred Years' War, Nicolas Eymerich is sent to the border between French and English-held lands, where an army of the undead is terrorising the countryside and threatening the truce of Brétigny. He sets out to learn what lies behind them. Two other threads run through the book. In an Italian city shrouded in permanent fog, three Jesuit priests investigate three strangely similar young women who guard a mysterious girl. Elsewhere an unnamed prisoner, held in a bronze prison outside time and space, sets out a physics theory meant to explain the collective unconscious and paranormal events. The goddess Hecate lies behind the central mystery, and the tone is dreamlike.
Where it sits
- Universe: Nicolas Eymerich
- Series: Ciclo di Eymerich core; position 5 of 12 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Valerio Evangelisti
Notes
- First published in Italy by Mondadori in 1997.
- From the series record (Ciclo di Eymerich): Twelve novels following the fourteenth-century inquisitor Nicolas Eymerich, each pairing a medieval plot with a modern or future one.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series Ciclo di Eymerich: position 5 of 12: previous Il mistero dell'inquisitore Eymerich (1996) · next Picatrix, la scala per l'inferno (1998)
Sources
← Nicolas Eymerich dossier · All universes
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