Corto Maltese #3 [6]

In "La casa dorata di Samarcanda [parte seconda]", Corto Maltese journeys through a fractured post-imperial landscape, chasing a legend tied to Alexander the Great’s lost treasure. Moving from the nascent Turkish Republic through the Soviet Union and into Reza Pahlavi’s Iran, he navigates shifting alliances and vibrant cultures, all while pursuing a mission that blurs myth with desperate hope.

Set in the 1600s near the New England settlement of New Canaan, "Tutto ricominciò con un'estate indiana" unfolds during a sudden, hauntingly beautiful Indian summer that turns a peaceful frontier into a tinderbox of tension. Amid the quiet rhythms of a Puritan colony and its long-standing truce with the local Native people, a single day of golden light ignites a chain of events rooted in forbidden desire, simmering hatred, and buried passions.