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From Kirkus Reviews Dazzling metaphysical epic-adventure as Barker surpasses his previous ground-breaking work (The Great and Secret Show, 1989, etc.) to reconfigure the Fall and to imagine a modern-day attempt to reverse it. A complex cosmology underpins the vigorous, at times horrific, action here: Imajica'' is the known universe of five Dominions,'' or parallel worlds, four reconciled'' but the fifth, Earth, unreconciled''--unaware of the other four, of the tyrannical Autarch'' who rules them, and of the God Hapeximendios,'' who oversees all five (and who wrested His'' power from the Goddesses'' of old). Periodically, Hapeximendios has sent His sons''--including Christ--to attempt to unite, by magical rites, the Fifth Dominion to the others. The last attempted Reconciliation'' ended in catastrophe--an invasion of Earth by hellish powers--and today magic has been nearly eradicated from Earth by a Society'' that alone knows of the Imajica and of the catastrophe. The densely woven story here opens with a jealous man venturing into London's dankest slum to hire an assassin to kill his estranged wife, Judith; the assassin turns out to be a mystif,'' a fabulous creature from th
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- Author
- Clive Barker, Clive Barker
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Published
- 2002
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780061745010
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Horror, Fantasy, Fiction
- Rating
- 4.16 / 5 (404 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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