Deze trilogie presenteert een apocalyptische visie op een oude stad waar mystieke profetieën botsen met samenzwerende regimes en gewone mensen hun toevlucht nemen tot misdaad en bedrog om te overleven. Met precieze en bijtend grappige proza volgt het personages die worstelen met hun innerlijke demonen en de omringende realiteit. De protagonisten, vaak hopeloze misantropen, worden geconfronteerd met persoonlijke geheimen en samenzweringen. Het is een donkere maar humoristische verkenning van de menselijke natuur in het aangezicht van de ondergang.
The Son follows one night in the life of a hero with no name, a writer whose life is falling apart. Stepping into the warm, Mediterranean night, in the southern Mediterranean city of Ulcinj, he encounters fanatics, thieves and prostitutes and learns the secret of his father's one obsession.
In a small town on the Adriatic coast, a local detective is content to sacrifice truth for the sake of telling his clients the stories they want to hear. At first, The Coming reads as a traditional detective novel, but suddenly changes form with the advent of snow in midsummer. When the town library burns down under mysterious circumstances, the detective s long-lost son begins to get involved in the investigations from afar. He takes the reader on excursions into history and recounts the life of Fra Dolcino, a medieval heretic who announced the return of the Messiah and also illuminates the life and work of Sabbatai Zevi, a Renaissance cabalist, who maintained that he himself was the Messiah. We learn that Sabbatai Zevi died in Ulcinj and left behind a manuscript, The Book of Return, which remains hidden. The unsolved mysteries of both past and present, as well as environmental anomalies, serve to create the sense of an impending apocalypse, giving way in the final chapter to a post-apocalyptic reality.
A compelling trilogy of short thrillers which centre around the ancient Mediterranean port of Ulcinj: site of treachery and mystery over the centuries, mixed in with Communist plots and secret service killings.