“Alefbet” is about a far away post war that makes us reflect about a possible future in which war destroyed most of the continents, turning them into a central desert called Middlehole, between the USA and Japan; dwelt by a renewed society, barbarous and civilized at the same time. But if it were just a vision, far and inapplicable from our present, lacking in values, it wouldn’t be a novel up to Nick Mur.
With a spectacular dive into fantastic indeed, the author images that in this new country live the reincarnations of all the most important historical characters ever, the so called Historymakers who, rebelled to their Role to bring human race towards a continuous cycle of ascent and decline, will try desperately, everyone their way, to give sense to their existence and to reach an unattainable freedom […].

“The story is more than engaging, it’s sweeping away and genial. Mur hasn’t just had the ability to create a whole new world, but he has created its mythology, its history, its evolution as well; He has assembled accurate links with real historical events to provide narration with a greater verisimilitude also revealing us the quite allegorical manner of the entire novel, and in all of this he has inserted a complex and fascinating plot, long but never boring, and above it all well written.”

G. Natale (Reviewer for Edizioni Kimerik)

F. Aglieri (Critic of Editrice Nuovi Autori)