Suomeksi
The debut novel of Anssi Asunta (b. 1938), artist, schoolteacher and illustrator, gives us a new interpretation of the Bible. Asunta’s intellectual and burlesque scientific-historical novel, Kolmas aikakirja (The Third Chronicle), weaves together stories told in the Bible. The Ark of the Covenant is found in 2035, and a researcher of the U.S. National Space Administration begins to unravel its secret. He embarks on a wild time travel that takes him to the world of Abraham, Moses and Jesus. The future and a millennia-old past curl into a huge spiral in this fascinating tale. In the middle of the giddy whirligig of events, the reader is given answers to the ultimate questions. Such as why Sodom and Gomorrah were destructed. And what Christ’s line of birth really was.
