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"The Piaculum" is at once hauntingly dark yet deeply spiritual. Set in the distant future, the story takes place on a desert landscape where a group of Christians called the Mone and a blood worshiping cult known as the Kathe are ensnared in religious tension. The Kathe believe that salvation can only be achieved by drinking blood from men born with a rare skin condition known as the white-mark. The novel follows the life of Cearl, a man with the white-mark born to a group of poor Mone farmers. Cearl has a good life with a wife and two children he deeply loves, but he finds himself consumed by memories of being tortured by the Kathe as a child, as well as an overwhelming feeling that his god wants something from him. When a group of Kathe come to Cearl's village looking for human sacrifices, Cearl comes face to face with his childhood memories and makes choices that could destroy his life.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Piaculum
• Author: Richard J Gray
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 216
• EAN: 9780595303014
• ISBN: 9780595303014
• ID: 07358183
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Weight: 322 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 13 mm
• Date of publishing: 13. January 2004

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