The novel's central character is Étienne Lantier, previously seen in L'Assommoir (1877), a young migrant worker who arrives at the forbidding coalmining town of Montsou in the bleak far north of France to earn a living as a miner.
Entdecken Sie eine faszinierende Reise durch die Welt des Okzidents und tauchen Sie ein in die Magie des Orients, wie sie in '1001 Nacht' beschrieben wird.
Terra is in a perpetual stalemate of a war with Proxima Centauri because the old and corrupt Centaurian Empire will not let the humans grow out of their current empire.