english, anglais, horror, Horreur, Fantasy, Fantaisie, fiction, Paranormal 

SERVANT OF THE BONES is Anne Rice's new electrifying novel, with a hero as mesmerising, seductive and ambivalent as the vampire Lestat. Azriel is a restless Jewish spirit, born almost 2500 years ago in Babylon, who can be called forth by whoever holds and understands the arcane mystery of the casket of golden bones he is tied to. Caught between heaven and earth, Azriel is forced to bear witness to the long and troubled history of Western civilisation, from the household of an ancient Greek philosopher and the deathbed of Alexander the Great, to the Mongolian Steppes and fourteenth century Strasbourg, where Jews were made scapegoats for the Black Death. And finally in the present, he is summoned to witness and avenge a brutal murder on Fifth Avenue. The dead woman is Esther, step-daughter of Gregory Belkin, fanatical messianic leader of a worldwide cult, the Temple of the Mind. Belkin is known to be the son of Holocaust victims, but he has a secret history which binds Azriel's fate to his. SERVANT OF THE BONES is as rich and terrifying, as sensual and violent as any novel by Anne Rice - an enthralling epic which conjures up more than two thousand years of Jewish history and penetrates the unfolding mysteries of evil, redemption, life and death. 

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Descriptif : Roman fantastique.
Résumé : Né a Babylone la rayonnante, Azriel est un fantôme. Triste, violent et très puissant, il est le jouet de forces obscures qui, des siècles durant, le tirent du néant pour semer le désespoir ou la peur parmi les hommes. Au vingtième siècle, à New York, il se trouve projeté au milieu d'un crime. Qui l'a commis, et dans quel but l'a-t-on appelé ? C'est ce qu'il doit découvrir pour racheter sa liberté.