The path through centuries. Book 2. The gates of heaven. Schmitt uh.

Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt is a world celebrity, laureate of the Goncurov Prize and many other awards. Readers called his novel “Oscar and Pink Lady” a book that changed their life, along with the Bible, “Little Prince” and “Three Musketeers”. His novels are translated into 45 languages ​​and in France every year they go out with a common circulation of half a million copies.

“The Gates of Heaven”-the second volume of the grandiose philosophical and romantic saga of Schmitt “The Way through the Centuries”. In the first volume, the “Lost Paradise” the Immortal Healer NOAM survived the World Flood, in the future he will see the ancient Egypt, the Renaissance, and the industrial revolution, but for now in search of his immortal lover - the incredible Nura, the only one for all millennia - he comes to Mesopotamia, where mankind has invented a reserved and to this day to live together. Large cities instead of small villages; taming rivers and irrigation instead of delicate and humble worship to nature; The invention of astronomy and writing - in front of the eternal wanderer, the very progress is happening for which humanity sacrifices itself from the beginning of its history. And the crown of this progress is a tower to heaven, to the very abode of the gods, which is erected by slaves on the orders of King Nimrod. The healer enters into any home - to the slaves and to the Queen of Kubab, to the court astrologer and to the shepherd Abram - and in front of us in all details the dizzying era opens, from which humanity has inherited.