The Man of Red Clay

A powerful novel of the ancient world in the tradition of Thomas Mann’s Joseph and His Brothers. Adam, first father of humankind, facing death and unable to come to terms with the loss of Paradise, sets off across the desert to search for Horeb, the mountain where he last talked with God. But the desert is the domain of the wind god Sammael, the place where those exiled and cursed by God dwell. Lemekh, a son of Cain and himself a murderer of kin, has set out on his own journey: to find the patriarch and hold him accountable for the evil in his own heart. This is a novel about mankind’s suffering and the answers we seek to place upon it; about miracles and the power of faith. J.P.Hooper, a descendent of lay preachers, has scripted dramas and documentaries. A former University of Wales scholarship recipient, he resides in Greece with his family and converted to the Greek Orthodox Church in 2001. This is his first novel, originally written in 1999 and now presented in a new revised edition.