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Where: Jerusalem,
Judea, the Sinai and the Red Sea.
When: Today and all
the yesterdays.
Background: One of the Dead
Sea Scrolls, dictated by Mary Magdalene and transcribed by an Essene monk,
disappeared in 1948 at the time of the Qumran excavations. A unique document
produced by a direct witness of Christ that has survived until present day, the
revelation of its contents may shake Christianity and Islam.
Theme: The Great
Mystery.
Plot: A man travels
to Jerusalem to acquire the Scroll. This is his first visit to Israel, but
wherever he goes, he is assailed by strange memories. And not just memories: one
night he goes to a cabaret where a young woman is singing. A woman he knew -
defying all logic - nine thousand years ago in Jericho. An impossible meeting.
A voyage through the ages to the source of love.
A Scroll and all that it
elicits: envy, conspiracy, danger, bravery, stupidity, and cowardice. Not to
mention unbelievable memories that infuse mundane reality, and the beating of
drums and of hearts. The song of a land joined in blood and light.
Author:
PPK was born in Normandy, France and educated at a religious boarding school. By 1968,
he is already an established anarchist. During a recital of the Israeli
Philharmonic, he falls for a violinist and abruptly quits his studies to seek
her out in Tel Aviv. But the journey east is rich with encounters . . . He
travels across Turkey and Iran, and an attack of dysentery forces a stay in
Afghanistan. Back in Europe, he is obliged to work. He is a pastry chef in
Paris, a cod fisherman in Greenland, a seaman in the merchant marine, head
waiter on the France ocean liner, a barman in Beirut, a postcard
photographer in Senegal, the Bahamas and then Manchester. He travels to America,
is a grill cook in Texas, cuts sugar cane in Martinique, works on the docks in
Venezuela, is a peddler in Montreal, a butcher in the Yukon, and a cook in
Lac-Saint-Jean, where he meets the woman he will eventually marry. Together,
they travel across the continent, descend the Amazon on a raft, bet and lose
their entire fortune in Las Vegas, live with the Mennonites in Mexico, among the
Turahumaras Indians. They have six children, raise goats and horses in northern
Lac-Saint-Jean, make wooden toys in British Colombia, and tend herds in
Saskatchewan. He is a radiotelephone operator at the Ticouap? Airport, building
painter in Quebec City, and an agent at the summer festivals. He is currently
helping to prepare the Tri-centennial celebrations in the Windsor-Detroit
region, where he is also the creator of the Premier Festival des
litt?ratures fran?aises des Am?riques.
Among his books : La
promise du Lac, Le Retour de l'Orchid?e, Badland, Maria, Chair d'Am?rique.
PPK states that Shalom,
Mon Amour represents a return to his first love and what he defines as
follows: "historical-futuristic metaphysical dark suspense genre". In
short, evasion, intrigue and adventure in every sense of the word.
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