Magenta

Magenta

By John Payton Foden

Pages

246

Rating

4.26

Year

2021

Description

Magenta is a harrowing journey into war-torn Sarajevo and into the blackest reaches of the human condition. The novel follows a journalist, Silva, as she and her team make their way deep into a city under siege in order to recover the body of Thierry, an award-winning filmmaker who has been killed there. But the postmodern odyssey that follows is beyond anything Silva could have expected, as she must make her way through a world in which good and evil lose their meaning, where survival is the only remaining value, and where there is always greater terror lurking around the next corner of the dark and broken labyrinth that a once-great city has become. Even if Silva herself survives the city, the abyss she has stared into will have stared back into her — and changed everything.