Salammbo

The novel "Salambo" is a fantasy resurrection of ancient Carthage by Gustave Flaubert.

Politics and religious mystery merge in a historical epic, the action of which unfolds shortly after the end of the First Punic War. Hordes of unruly mercenaries who have not received the promised payment raise a bloody uprising. It is in this gloom that Salammbo, the high priestess of the goddess Tanit and the daughter of the commander Hamilcar, and the defiant leader of the rebels, Matho, first meet.

This is a book about an unjustifiably cruel and merciless war, about mysterious religious cults, savage morality, which may seem like the absence of morality as such, about passion and the first movements of bodily sensuality.

But most importantly, this is a book about mystical love.

However, can it be otherwise?

The text is supplemented with illustrations by Maria Khymynec.