(Only in Italian at the moment)
“Kerub vol I – Antiheroes Gathering” is Nick Mur’s second novel. Published on March 2004 by Nuovi Autori (Milan).The work is composed of two parts (see Kerub Vol. II).
The image used on the cover is under licence of the Uffizi Gallery of Florence.

“Once again Nick Mur utilizes images and authors of the classical antiquity, the Bible, and particularly the Apocalypse, as it may well noticed in the learned glossary of fantasy in the appendix.
Nick’s brilliant spirit, together ironic and playful, makes the book an interesting and enjoyable reading, following the pyrotechnical game given by kaleidoscopic images that offer to the reader his personal interpretation of the genre, respecting though all its rules.”

ANGELA VISTARCHI            
Lecturer of American languages and Literatures Sassari University             

Kerub, a fallen angel run away from hell, finds himself in the Middle Age of the XIII century. Divided between his two natures – the angelic and the demoniac ones – he learns to know the human relationships difficulties and the passions which animate them. But is his stay on Earth the result of a free choice or maybe he’s just the pawn of a deceitful and cruel game? Which one of the two natures will prevail? The angelic or the devil one? Which effect will the tyrannies of the Popes, the intrigues of the palaces or a woman’s love sort on both of them? An engaging novel, wherein the narration of History enters the fantasy genre and the medieval symbolism, which uses the Fantastic as an instrument for the world understanding, is joined by tragicomic and paradoxical situations, narrated with a modern style. A novel that, with its visions and romantic motives, proposes itself to the reader as an example to search for goodness and fight personal battles with bravery and determination.

Resumen from the Back Cover             

“The young author shows to posses an easy language, not seldom ironic or humoristic, especially in the dialogues. Fantasy elements locate themselves in a mythical Middle Age, which begins on 1033 AD. The glossary shows all the voices of this enchanted world which belongs to different traditions where both mythological and literary characters have place.”

Luciano Nanni            
“Il Punto di Vista” no. 41, (2004)   

“With subsequent meetings and fights among Northern creatures and Greek Mythological ones have place the story of Kerub, who gets transported upon the wave of time from which names and characters existed for real do emerge. An eventful plot expressed with a coloured and youthful language, often fun. But the story isn’t superficial like now and then we are tempted to think: on the contrary, behind the event told by the prince of the angels, great themes leak out, such as the ambiguous and complex separation between good and evil, or also the perceptions of the harrowing contradictions existing inside human nature, everything faced with a youthful hyperbole. Nick Mur is only 22 years old and nevertheless he seems to have questioned about bigger problems than his age may even perceive […].”

PERLA RONCHI            
“Il punto di vista” no. 46, (2005)