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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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Henry Lupori
reviewed The Piaculum:a novel on December 13, 2011
The Piaculum:a novel
Full disclosure: I am sort of a socialist, with occasional streaks of contrarianism. I love the dystopian novels of the late 19th and early 20th centuries that correctly predicted and critiqued the rise of a global oligarchy, the destruction of the middle class, and the gradual acceptance of a permanent underclass of the poor. The Air Trust focuses on the danger of allowing individuals to create monopolies that control the necessities of life. The issues are important, and I was disposed to enjoy the book.
But yikes--this novel achieves an almost surreal vivacity in its wildly overdrawn characters and themes. The hero is a hero through and through, with a mission to lead the revolution to return labor to its importance. The villain is a self-congratulatory, power-mad caricature of the evil 1%--think Mr. Burns from the Simpsons, complete with evil laugh and regular rants about the power he lusts after.
It's exhausting. But the good guys win, so that's a plus. I do recommend this novel to those looking to compare styles within the genre. I would NOT recommend it to anyone I'd like to persuade about the evils of unfettered capitalism.
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