Septimania by Jonathan Levi

Septimania by Jonathan Levi

On an spring afternoon in 1978 in the loft of a church outside Cambridge, England, an organ tuner named Malory loses his virginity to a dyslexic math genius named Louiza. When Louiza disappears, Malory follows her trail to Rome. There, the quest to find his love gets sidetracked when he discovers he is the heir to the Kingdom of Septimania, given by Charlemagne to the Jews of eighth-century France. In the midst of a Rome reeling from the kidnappings and bombs of the Red Brigades, Malory is crowned King of the Jews, Holy Roman Emperor and possibly Caliph of All Islam.

Over the next fifty years, Malory s search for Louiza leads to encounters with Pope John Paul I, a band of lost Romanians, a magical Bernini statue, Haroun al Rashid of Arabian Nights fame, an elephant that changes color, a shadowy U.S. spy agency and one of the 9/11 bombers, an appleseed from the original Tree of Knowledge, and the secret history of Isaac Newton and his discovery of a Grand Unified Theory that explains everything. It is the quest of a Candide for love and knowledge, and the ultimate discovery that they may be unified after all.

Levi, Jonathan: - Jonathan Levi is a successful television executive and BAFTA nominated documentary film maker. Attracted to the extremes in society, he was the first person to ever gain full access to the patients and staff at Broadmoor for a highly acclaimed primetime ITV series offering startling insights into the minds of some of Britain's most notorious mental patients. When TV star and recording artist Tulisa was entrapped by the Sun on Sunday she turned to Jonathan to author and tell her story for BBC1 in the ratings hit Tulisa: The Price of Fame. Jonathan has made programs with Andrew Lloyd Webber about his art collection and his musicals, and has hosted fundraisers with The Old Vic. He is Factual Producer on the forthcoming ITV four-part drama, Hatton Garden.

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ISBN 13	9781468314281
ISBN 10	1468314289
Titel	Septimania
Autor	Jonathan Levi
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	The Overlook Press
Erscheinungsjahr	2017-05-16
Seitenanzahl	336
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