Taltos (French Edition)

Qui est donc l'étrange M. Ash. géant calme et d'une infinie douceur, collectionneur de poupées anciennes et philanthrope ? A la tête d'un immense empire financier. est-il vraiment le seul survivant de l'espèce légendaire des Taltos ? II a toute raison de le croire. Mais bientôt il apprend par un mystérieux informateur que l'on a signalé l'un des siens en Ecosse, sur les lieux mêmes où, des siècles plus tôt, avant l'arrivée des Romains, il dirigeait son clan. Ses investigations le propulsent aussitôt dans l'univers de Rowan Mayfair et de sa famille de sorcières, tourmentée de toute éternité par fantômes et démons. Des femmes dotées de tempéraments de feu et de pouvoirs exceptionnels, qui ne sont pas sans lien avec l'héritage des Taltos... Meet Mr. Ash, quiet-spoken, tall, unfailingly kind - sole survivor of an ancient species, the Taltos - thriving among humankind as he has always done, now the head of a great corporate empire. As the novel opens, he is stunned to learn from an old and mysterious friend that another Taltos has been seen - in the very same Scottish glen where centuries ago, long before the coming of the Romans, Ash ruled his clan. At once he is propelled into the world of Rowan Mayfair, and into the mysteries of the Mayfair family - the New Orleans dynasty of witches forever besieged by ghosts, spirits, and the dizzying powers of his own species - a family intimately involved with the heritage of the Taltos, a family of unique, brilliant, and troubled souls struggling as they have for centuries to use both science and magic in their battle for greatness, even survival. At the heart of the novel is the Talamasca, a secular order of psychic scholars, the only organization in existence which may understand Ash, his Taltos past, and the dilemma of the Mayfair witches. The story of the Mayfair family continues, moving from London to Donnelaith, Scotland, to New Orleans, back and forth through time - from the origins of the Taltos and their mythic Lost Land to the moral crises of the present day.