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The Piaculum is at once hauntingly dark
yet deeply spiritual. Set in the distant future, the story
takes place in a desert landscape where
a group of Christians called the Mone
and a blood worshiping cult known as the Kathe
are ensared in religious tensions. The Kathe
believe that salvation can only be achieved by drinking
blood from men born with a rare skin condition known as
the white-mark.
The novel follows the
life of Cearl, a man with the white-mark born to a group
of poor Mone farmers. Cearl has a good life with a wife
and two children he deeply loves, but he finds
himself consumed by memories of being tortured by the
Kathe as a child, as well as an overwhelming feeling that
his god wants something from him. When a group of Kathe
come to Cearl's village looking for human sacrifices,
Cearl comes face to face with his childhood memories and
makes choices that could destroy his life.
ISBN: 0-595-30301-3
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