Corto Maltese #4 [7]

In "La casa dorata di Samarcanda [parte seconda]", Corto Maltese ventures through a fractured post-imperial landscape, navigating the shifting borders of the Turkish Republic, the Soviet Union, and Reza Pahlavi’s Iran in search of a legendary treasure said to be hidden by Alexander the Great. His quest, cloaked in myth and driven by a daring mission, takes him deep into the heart of Central Asia, where ancient legends collide with the turbulent realities of a world in transition.

Tutto ricominciò con un'estate indiana unfolds in the 1600s near the colonial settlement of New Canaan in New England, where peaceful relations between English settlers and local Indigenous people have endured for years. But on a golden autumn day marked by an unseasonal Indian summer, a sudden act of violence erupts, shattering the fragile calm. Set against a backdrop of repressed desire and rigid morality, the story explores themes of love, hatred, and hidden passions in a Puritan frontier community, echoing the emotional intensity of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter.