At long last, the brilliant first novel from World Fantasy Award winning author, Zoran ivkovic is being published in English. The Fourth Circle takes the reader on an amazing journey from frescoed medieval monasteries to Buddhist temples to different planets to a paralyzed scientist's bedroom in London to the edge of black hole at the far reaches of the universe to a place not all the dissimilar from 221 B Baker Street. ivkovics masterful voice cradles the reader safely from one place to the next and in the end deposits the reader carefully at the singular spot in which all the storylines coincide. The Ministry of Whimsy edition of The Fourth Circle concludes with an afterword by ivkovic about the travails of writing his first novel, translating it into English, and then finding a publisher for it. All while war in ivkovics native Serbia surrounded him. "In its rich tapestry of prose and compositional skills, as well as in its imaginative leaps and intellectual sophistication, The Fourth Circle must be considered, so far, as the author's masterpiece, an acclamation that extends well beyond a mere appreciation of ivkovic's own and singular work." --SF Site.com Zoran ivkovic is a subtle, intelligent, wonderfully inventive writer who brings a fresh point of view, an idiosyncratic angle of attack, to everything he produces. He is one of the finest writers currently at work in the New Europe. Read him and celebrate. "What could a computer wizard selfexiled in an abandoned Buddhist temple possibly have in common with the humble servant of a medieval fresco printer? What is the link between the enigmatic mission of a giant radio-telescope and a tribe of spherical beings who dwell in a world full of unearthly sencts and herbs? What will bring four great scientists from various centuries Archimedes, Ludolph van Ceulen, Nikola Tesla and Stephen Hawking, to the same spot in time? What has this got to do with Rama, a female computer program, impregnated by a strange ape? And, above all, why isit necessary for Sherlock Holmes and Moriarty to join forces so that the Fourth Circle can finally be closed?" Zoran Živković ; [translated From The Serbian By Mary Popović]. Translated From The Serbian.
