The Road to Tsargrad

19 hrs. 23 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Nenad Ilic

Narrator Oksana Kurenya

Description

Nenad Ilić is a Serbian writer and director who lives in Belgrade. Born in 1957. A graduate of 1981 from the Department of Theatre Directing, Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade. After ten years working in theater, on radio, and on television, since the early 1990s he studies at the Faculty of Theology of the University of Belgrade. In 1996 he was ordained as a deacon in the Serbian Orthodox Church. He is assigned to the Church of Saint Nicholas at the New Cemetery in Belgrade.

N. Ilić is the founder and first editor of the journal “Iskon,” the author of a number of scripts for feature-length documentary films, television series, and major musical-theatrical productions, as well as several scripts for comics. Artistic editor and author of texts for multimedia CD-ROM publications.

He is married to Vesna-Anastasija, with whom he has four children. Together with his wife, he has published seventeen books. They work side by side in the field of Orthodox education and the development of spirituality in the modern world.

His bestselling 2004 novel-synthesis “The Road to Tsargrad” has gone through seven editions in Serbia.

During rocket bombardments in Belgrade, the priest Miki finds an ancient manuscript of a mysterious traveler. The traveler’s route—passing through Serbia to Tsargrad Road to Constantinople—miraculously goes beyond time limits. Behind the mysterious manuscript, in which the history of the future is laid out, begins a breathtaking chase through space and time.

In the novel, the past and the future are skillfully intertwined, with a subtle humor and bitter experiences, kind irony and a deep penetration into the eternal questions of history and changing forms of being.