(Only in Italian at the moment)
“Kerub Vol. II - The prince of Solitude” is Nick Mur’s third novel, it ends the Kerub Saga.

“The important fact that can be drawn from the pages of the text is the symbolic meaning of the protagonist. Kerub represents Man in his contradictions indeed, the eternal prince impoverished by his sin, possessed by good and evil. He has conscience of the narrowness, of the limit which oppresses, but doesn’t give in […]. The originality is about the narrative barrier that embraces theoretic digressions such as the one about free will and Church corruption, which sometimes give to the novel the physiognomy of a philosophical essay.”

ORESTE MORANO                   
Teacher of Italian Literature,          
“A. Gramsci” High School of Olbia

"A statement of certain fundamental values which qualify man as a Man and express itself both directly, as reliance upon the great potentialities of this small being who, although limited by the short time allowed by his earthly life, is yet able to arouse even immortal beings’ admiration; and indirectly, through an irony that although is not brandished with the strength of a sword, is able to cut the over inflated belly of presumptuousness, vanity and gratuitous violence.”

GIUSEPPE SERPILLO               
Lecturer of English Language and Literature      
Sassari University            

At the end of his adventures, Kerub finds himself accompanying Frederick II towards his last conquests and nevertheless to his premature death. While Saturn’s perfect plans seem destined to fail, new disturbing revelations are unveiled by the conceited Seraph. A tremendous shock awaits the beloved Edlitam, merged into the appalling scenarios of Ybris Chronou, the town where Apocalypse is being prepared. Has the end for human race eventually come? Will the terrible keeper wanted by the mystics finally reveal himself? Which developments will be decreasing the previous gathering to a single prince of solitude? Between old characters who come back and new incredible antiheroes, the Nick Mur’s visionary imagination guide us once again towards the meanders of our subconscious, untying its symbols and releasing its spirit, in an immediate whirlwind of situations proper of his style.

Resumen from the Back Cover             

“Mur’s mythological imaginary travels from Japan to classic Greece, from Northern Europe to the African shamanism, taking advantage of his humanistic repertoire, with quotations from Aristophanes and Dante; a learned fantasy, sometimes ironic, always sparkling. Mur’s writing is a galloping trip, the rhythm is syncopated, the mental association immediate. To the untrained readers of fantasy there’s also a helpful appendix with all the specific terms […].”

SONIA COSCO               
Literary, no. 1, January 2007