KNOW-IT-ALL                                                                                                                                                      THE BLABBERMOUTH

                                             AVATAR

                                                      It’s happening now...

            Music scholar Clovis Yann is kidnapped by a mysterious group of monks on his way home. Minutes later, a bomb explodes in the tube where Yann was supposed to board. Hours later, a chain of terrorist attacks on a worldwide scale make World War III break out. His relatives and friends think he’s dead, but the action moves to a lost mountain in Tibet, where the musician will have to spend ten years training his body and mind in order to find out –remember- who he is.

            Wars, epidemics, natural disasters and social conflicts threaten the existence of humankind itself. When Clovis is back with his new knowledge, he will try to re-establish the universal order of things, which was once destroyed by his ancestors... who, one day, will also become his offspring.

            This enigmatic, spiral-like puzzle with no clear beginning or end inserts the reader into a fantastic story of philosophy, love, pain, wisdom and power that mirrors today’s world, showing our deepest concerns and anxieties and shedding light on their possible solutions.

            ‘The Tragedy of Contemporary times. A must-have’.

                                                                                                              -Philadelphia Journal.

                ‘Every time you read it a new idea is found out. It changes your concept of history, society and self-knowledge from the inside and the outside. Hypnotic’.

                                                                                                              -Washington Post.

                ‘Jean Nunty has collected all the ingredients to create what is probably the best piece of literature in years. It’s not only that the story has been influenced by Shakespeare and the classics, but it also seems that the latter have been inspired by Avatar. It trascends both space and time’.

                                                                                                              -Dan Brown, author of Angels & Demons

                ‘Avatar has everything you would expect. A new vision of the world inside its pages’.

                                                                                                              -Barnes & Noble ed.

                Jean Nunty (Athens, 1947) was born to a French father and a Greek mother. At the age of seven he moved with his parents and younger sister to New Zealand to leave post-war poverty behind and start a new life. He studied Philosophy and English Literature at the University of Auckland and has published other bestselling novels like Blood and Soil (1969), Cupido’s Girlfriend (1974), It’s not that easy to die (1977), Bound for Thule (1988), The Cain Chronicles (1999) and Yes, It’s Me (2002). His latest work, Avatar (2007), is a serious candidate for the Nobel prize and will surely create thousands of different opinions and reviews. As the author himself said, ‘I’ve needed a whole life to write it, and I think that a whole life would be required to understand it’. Now he lives with his wife –with whom he had three children- in a farm near Helensville, New Zealand.

      Avatar, the tragedy that will re-construct your horizons. Don’t miss it!

                ‘Silence is the purest of sounds. Dominate silence and you’ll be the conductor of universe’.

                                                                                    -Clovis Yann (Avatar, The Analogy of Fate, chapter XIV)