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A Parallel Path
A Parallel Path
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2002. Waking up naked next to someone she barely knows, after a wild night out, Nastasha realises she has just lost something she can never recover. And it’s not just her shoes. Running away, she ends up following the old pilgrim’s road from Arles to Santiago de Compostela. 1,500 kilometres. Barefoot. While walking helps her come to terms with herself, she is troubled by disturbing dreams that predict the future, and frightening visions of a boy crossing her path in another, darker time.

1348. First to come down with the plague, Dominic survives to find himself alone. Nowhere to go, he stays on to help at the hospital in Avignon, where he feels increasingly lost and out of place. Blaming himself for his father’s death, he sets off to Santiago, where his mother abandoned him at birth 13 years ago, in the hope of finding out who she was, who he is, and where he belongs. A lonely pilgrimage under the shadow of the black death that will test his spirit and his faith.

Though centuries apart, Nastasha and Dominic share more than the path under their bare feet. More, in fact, than they may wish to find out...

LanguageEnglish
PublisherMarco Peel
Release dateJun 7, 2011
ISBN9781458101808
A Parallel Path
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Marco Peel

Made in Greece, born in Holland, raised in Mexico and educated in Australia, he finished his studies in Belgium to work in the Far East, Europe and the Carribean.A few years ago, he left his shoes at home to walk the Camino de Santiago. Architect and composer, he now lives in Spain with his wife and two sons.

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