Konnici na Liriite - Chevalier Du Lys

I've got several books by Dan Simmons and this one was the first book I read. This is a novel hard to compreehend which genre it is. It's part Terror and part an Adventure novel. There was something in this book that make me sick. In the beginning as our protagonist family arrives at Calcuta they discribe it a dirty city, our main characters sweat with miasma and everything awful. It's quite bad image. I remember being sick and re-reading it several times that couple of pages. It's quite disgusting. I think I've nver felt that from a novel before or even afterwards. Now the plot... Luczac and his wife and baby go to Calcuta to find a poet who apearently is writing new things despised being dead for 8 years. If he is alive where can he be found. They met Krishna (a local intelectual) who have been asked to assist them by a mutual friend. They meet the local writers guild who denies a meeting between him and Das (the indian writer). Luczac and Krishna then meet a man that tells them about a secret society dedicated to Kali a Hindu godess of death and destruction. He also tells them that to join the sect he had to bring a corpse from the river. And the corpse was of Das. Again Luczac goes to the guild and this time they let him see the writer. Das is suffering from leprosy an confirms the story that they had heard fromt hat man but Luczac refuses to believe. Then they give him a extensive collection of Das poety very different from what he knew. In exchange Das asks him to bring books of poetry. Luczac as he is drawn into the tale and getting frightening tries to send hims wife and child home but they are unable to do it. Concealing a gun inside a book of poetry given by Krishna he returns to Das and gives him the books. As he tries to return home he hears two shots and the guards knocked him out. After a supernatural manisfestation of Kali he escapes only to find that his child was kidnapped. After days of dead-ends a couple is caught trying to smuggle jewels hidden within the child who died of trauma. With their child dead they return to America and he destroys the poetry and their life returns slowly to normal. In the end we learn that the whispers of the Song of Kali can be heard.

This book is a evil book but excelent believe me. When you start to read the book you will not want to stop. It's a book dedicated to an evil side of humanity. Calcuta here has done as Sodoma and Gomorra has done to chrstianity. It's quite scaring book and without an happy ending. I would advice to anyone who loves a horror novel. It's quite excelent. 9.5/10.