National Library of Australia's copy has the author's signature. ANL
Summary:
Backgroud: Enok is a fantasy novel set in the milieu of antediluvian Genesis, a multi-layered Bildungsroman centred on the trials of a young man, Enok, suffering puberty, prejudice and deep loneliness in a world that hates him. Here we ask: Who were the serpents of Eden? Where did they hail from? What were they like? Were they pawns in a game grander and more sinister they could ever have foreseen? Series: Enok is the opening instalment of a forthcoming series exploring this primordial drama - of the Serpents, the angelic watchers, and the rise of the para-human Nephilim. Plot: Here, amidst ceaseless hostilities between the races, Enok is a lonely captive on an island of the serpents who are broadly aligned into factions, one militaristic, the other pacifist. The belligerent and increasingly dominant militarists want him dead and his human race exterminated. After a failed bid for acceptance, Enok's only hope for survival is to escape with the help of a shipwrecked amazon, the first human he's seen since infancy. Loyalties and identity are tested and questioned as he evaluates whether she is really his friend, and the pacifist cabal of his captors really his enemy. Because of the strange company the amazon keeps, the reverse could actually be true!The tale is told in retrospect by Enok's future widow to her newfound grandchildren, ones she finally realises are not entirely human. And the Watchers 'above' discover in her telling that the key to understanding present dilemmas is rooted firmly in the past - that is, with Enok's amazon saviour, the other grandmother of her newfound grandchildren.Extras: Enok is written with an optional (longer) reading stream. It contains five superbly drawn maps and charts, an in-book glossary, as well as an online companion universe containing additional character information and world-building material.
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