American Desert

10 hrs. 10 min.

Language Russian

Author Percival Everett

Narrator Mikhail Prokopov

Description

Ted Street, a professor of English at the University of Southern California, has died. If we’re being exact, he went to end his life by suicide—and on the way, he had an accident. Instant death—the head is severed from the body. That’s how, right at the very beginning of the novel, the main character dies ignominiously.

But exactly three days later—at his own funeral—Ted rises from the coffin to the words of the hymn: “This is the path to the Savior, to Lord Jesus Christ.”

A man whose head had been stitched back on with fishing line in a mortuary, whose death the coroner recorded—came back to life. So did everything around him. Crowds of journalists want interviews; respectable citizens and Christian sects see in Ted Street either the devil or a messenger from God on earth; secret government services see the resurrected man as a valuable specimen for experiments. Only the “culprit” himself saw nothing in his own story…

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