Празната пещера

The People's Homeland is an unnamed Balkan state where everyone speaks Bulgarian. Its rulers, former smugglers of antiquities, have made a cult of a hazy, heroic past and use it to excuse the absurdities of the present. Real and virtual borders are guarded, the internet is controlled, and people who cause trouble vanish or end up in mines digging for gold that isn't there, while their children are sent to homes for those 'saved from parental care'. With the world shaken by cyberwar and close to a third world war, the American journalist John and Maya, no longer a journalist, meet again years after their first adventure. With others who refuse to fall in line, they risk their careers and lives to find the truth behind forgotten crimes, hidden schoolbooks and family photographs.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

476 pages in the original

Genres

Speculative, Politics (assigned by AI)

First published

2017 by Janet 45

ISBN

9786191862931 (original)