Corto Maltese #8 [11]

In "La casa dorata di Samarcanda [parte seconda]", Corto Maltese journeys 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 as a hunt for gold, becomes a perilous passage through emerging nations and ancient rivalries, where every step brings him closer to a secret that could free a man long thought lost.

Tutto ricominciò con un'estate indiana unfolds in the 1600s near the New England frontier settlement of New Canaan, where peaceful relations between English colonists and local Indigenous people have long endured. A sudden, violent clash erupts on a day of golden autumn weather, shattering the fragile calm and igniting tensions rooted in forbidden love, repressed desire, and the rigid moral codes of a Puritan community.