The Man Who Spoke with God -

Thales Guaracy

Copacabana

2013

538 páginas

17h 56m

ISBN-13: 9788565397162

The most famous story from the Bible becomes a contemporary thriller in this novel of extraordinary strenght. Appeared as a gift of the gods - a baby flowing on the Nile, the sacred river of Egypt - Moses is raised next to the future pharaoh to be a wizard. Restless, he casts himself in the mysteries of magic, love and war. Moses falls in love with Miriam, Hebrew sorceress and dancer who sees him as the messiah of his people and attracts with the promise of true magic and magnetism of love. Balaam, the magician of the court and his tutor, fearful that the young take their place, reveals that they are brothers. The shock ignites his transformation from a shy and stammering apprentice created by the Egyptians into the leader of a revolt, reunited to his lost family, renouncing his princely status and destined to suffer in the face of impossible love.

When he returns from the desert ready to lead his people, he meets Joshua, a young man of pure heart, and then transformed into a killer and a warrior for the love of a woman who has not ever known innocence, for she was raped in childhood. Together, Moses and Joshua are complementary in the divine plan. The first, the intellectual, the one who needs to see God to believe in it, is the organizer of a new nation. The other is the armed wing with blind faith that helps pave the way against Egyptian oppression and a people with their own traitors with a sword. Only one of the two, however, will enter the Promised Land.

The prophet who is at the root of all contemporary religions emerges in his full spiritual and human dimension, in a thrilling story to be read in one breath. And puts us before the divine purpose for each one of us. What is the meaning of life on earth? Why some shall enter to the Promised Land and others not?

''In this ambitious second novel, Thales revisits the biblical account of Exodus in a contemporary point of view. In the center of the story is the prophet Moses, who would have received the Ten Commandments of God - portrayed as a skeptical and contraditory man. Next to Moses, come to life other beautiful characters like Joshua, the warrior, and the sorcerer Balaam. Thales went to Egypt and assisted on the latest historical research to create a work on the same shelf of books from French Christian Jacq, author of Ramses.''
Veja magazine

''A novel that uses the Biblical scenario, but serves as a portrait of modern man seeking meaning in life. Good to read and makes you wonder.''
José Geraldo Galvão Ferraz, VIP magazine

''Thales plunges into the liquid or the elixir of human essence which is being built at the same time that weaves the saga of the man Moses, a seeker, a wanderer, a sage, a madman, an atheist and a missionary.''
Ana Elizabeth Diniz, O Tempo

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5 (Perfeito)

I loved!!!

The most famous Bible history as you’ve never seen! This touching novel based on the most recent historical researches made in Egypt draws Moses’ history from his youth when he was just a shy, stutterer novice until he becomes the leader of the Hebrews. On the one hand this novel highlights the human extent of the prophet that is part of the foundation of most modern religions, revealing his passion and pain for the impossible love of Miriam, an Hebrew witch and dancer, the human weaknesses and conflicts, the reunion with his lost family, the renunciation to the title of prince of Hebrews, and the leadership in the revolution. On the other hand it narrates all the spirituality of a scholar that has changed the history of a nation, entered the Promised Land, and whose life puts us in the face of a search for our own meaning of life and a divine purpose for our existence.