Messiah: A Novel

By: Andrei Codrescu

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Synopsis: From the author of the acclaimed and ravishing "The Blood Countess" comes "Messiah," a novel chronicling the onset of millennial fever and the universal yearning for a "Messiah." Set against a backdrop of warring religious fundamentalist factions, social upheaval, and mystical inspiration, "Messiah" combines Codrescu's sonorous prose with mordant social commentary and incandescent characters. "Messiah" combs through the artifacts of American millennial culture with adroit examinations of cyberspace, fundamentalist religion, sex, and the cult of celebrity. Set from December 1999 to Mardi Gras 2000, "Messiah" introduces two remarkable young women: Felicity, a girl detective in New Orleans, and Andrea, a Sarajevan orphan who has found asylum in Jerusalem after internment in a Serbian POW camp. Felicity and Andrea, both presciently self-aware, come to believe they are the two severed halves of a whole entity, eventually finding each other amid the chaos of millennial fervor. Their special mission: to fulfill an extraordinary destiny as Armageddon sweeps the earth.