The Map of Time. Felix J. Palma
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Название: The Map of Time
Автор: Felix J. Palma
Издательство: HarperCollins
Жанр: Историческая литература
isbn: 9780007344147
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FELIX PALMA
The Map of Time
Translated from the Spanish by Nick Caistor
Copyright
Fiction
An imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF
Copyright © Felix Palma 2008
Translation copyright © Nick Caistor 2011 First published in Spanish as El Mapa Del Tiempo 2008
Felix Palma asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.
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Source ISBN: 9780007344123
Ebook Edition © 2011 ISBN: 9780007344147 Version: 2016-02-18
‘The distinction between past, present and future is an illusion, but a very persistent one.’
ALBERT EINSTEIN
‘Mankind’s most perfectly terrifying work of art is the division of time.’
ELIAS CANETTI
‘What is waiting for me in the direction I don’t take?’
JACK KEROUAC
Contents
Copyright
PART ONE
Chapter I
Chapter II
Chapter III
Chapter IV
Chapter V
Chapter VI
Chapter VII
Chapter VIII
Chapter IX
Chapter X
Chapter XI
Chapter XII
Chapter XIII
Chapter XIV
Chapter XV
Chapter XVI
Chapter XVII
PART TWO
Chapter XVIII
Chapter XIX
Chapter XX
Chapter XXI
Chapter XXII
Chapter XXIII
Chapter XXIV
Chapter XXV
Chapter XXVI
Chapter XXVII
Chapter XXVIII
Chapter XXIX
Chapter XXX
Chapter XXXI
Chapter XXXII
Chapter XXXIII
PART THREE
Chapter XXXIV
Chapter XXXV
Chapter XXXVI
Chapter XXXVII
Chapter XXXVIII
Chapter XXXIX
Chapter XL
Chapter XLI
Chapter XLII
Chapter XLIII
About the Author
PART ONE
Chapter I
Andrew Harrington would gladly have died several times over if that meant not having to choose just one pistol from among his father’s vast collection in the living-room cabinet. Decisions had never been Andrew’s strong point. On close examination, his life had been a series of mistaken choices, the last of which threatened to cast its lengthy shadow over the future. But that life of unedifying blunders was about to end. This time he was sure he had made the right decision, because he had decided not to decide. There would be no more mistakes in the future because there would be no future. He was going to destroy it completely by putting one of those guns to his right temple. He could see no other solution: obliterating the future was the only way for him to eradicate the past.
He scanned the contents of the cabinet, the lethal assortment his father had lovingly assembled after his return from the war. He was fanatical about those weapons, though Andrew suspected it was not СКАЧАТЬ