In Search of New Babylon

New Babylon does not exist. But if the city had to be built, duels would be allowed there and the only law would forbid lawmen; the landscapes would take your breath away, until in the end someone cut your throat. It would be a dangerous place where everyone would at last know their true worth. In this western set in the American West of the 1800s, Reverend Aaron, Charles Teasdale, Russian Bill and Pearl Guthrie search the desert for an impossible ideal, leaving the footprints of their fates behind them, in a world where nothing lasts and the point is not to escape death but to choose one's arena.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

462 pages in the original

Genres

Historical (assigned by AI)

Set in

United States, 19th century

First published

2015 by La Peuplade

Author's age

31 when first published

ISBN

9782923530956 (original)

9781772011241 (Talonbooks, Canada)