A Free Man
A human being begins to search for an inner voice beyond belief, authority and inherited order.
From Mesopotamia to sixteenth-century Germany, from modern migration to early Islamic history: novels that question power, belief, belonging and the human search for freedom.
Seven works across different periods and geographies. Each book has its own page with a clear introduction and, where available, reading samples and audio.
A human being begins to search for an inner voice beyond belief, authority and inherited order.
Mad’s path leads into the heart of power, memory and the human struggle to choose.
Five thousand years later Mad awakens in Iraq and confronts war, language and modern belonging.
A novel about love, the body, morality and the invisible boundaries created by other people’s gaze.
Against the Peasants’ War and Reformation, Zingara and Matthias move toward a love their age resists.
A panorama of belief, warfare and the machinery of power beyond sanctified versions of history.
The making of a novel becomes a story about migration, memory and the border between life and literature.
A wide historical novel about belief, war, plunder and rule. Scattered narratives are brought together into a larger literary movement about the history behind history.
Literature does not end on the printed page. Reader voices and new essays form the living memory of this website.
Comments, memories and reflections remain visible with their original historical dates.
Read Reader CommentsTexts on the novels, history, mythology and the author’s work are gathered chronologically.
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