...She fell asleep, and between sleep and waking she thought that the strange doe they saw on their way appeared in the room.
A wild wind was stirring her hair again, even though the place was closed like a can.
They stared motionless. The color of the animal's eyes was the cobalt shade of her own eyes.
But when Aethra stroked it, it withdrew and took the form of a woman with strange, colored tattoos.
The figure of a deer stood out among them...
After the death of her son, archaeologist and writer Aithra Baxer sinks into drink and depression.
But when she is offered by the anthroparchaeologist Adrian Major to participate in an archaeological expedition
in the Altai mountains in order to prove that the Amazons were real people, he decides to surrender.
A red thread, Frida Kahlo's painting Wounded Deer, the water from the deer spring and the herb of death, along with a multitude of characters interacting in the present and past with dual identities, create a powerful web of mystery, offering an incredible time travel.
A book about a time when the boundaries were fluid between reality and legend, history and myth, humans and gods.
THE INSPIRATION
‹‹The reason we humans had to invent or imagine heroes and gods is fear. The fear of life and the fear of death. Frida Kahlo, 1907-1954 Mexican painter
"Is man a mistake of God or is God a mistake of man?"
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, 1844-1900 German philosopher and poet
"The gods roll the dice and don't even ask if we want to be in the game or not".
Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900 Irish writer, poet and critic
"Some days God seems so far away, it seems as if he doesn't exist".
Simone de Beauvoir, 1908-1986 French writer and philosopher