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“The last bestseller of Ludmila Filipova The Parchment Maze (2009) cast us into a legendary quest followed by yet another chasing temptation of her newest novel The Dante’s Antichthon(2010).

As a true magician the book instantly embraces the reader with a Florence myth inspired by an ancient empirical formula known as „The Mystery of the Ten” concealed in Dante Alighieri's manuscripts.

The Dante’s Antichthon  proves to be a well justified guide for the millennium record of the Tenth element. The encrypted mirror messages of Orpheus, the scripts of Alighieri and the mysterious Book of Enoch the prophet - they are all straight in to be unveiled.

The protagonists rearrange the symbols of the Secret town of Coppede in Rome by revealing the very mechanism of the Ten thousand terrestrial breaths. Their quest further deciphers the Holly tablet of Dr. Dee in Oxford and the first human message on the stone heads found near the Iron Gates of the Danube River.

About Anatomy of illusion

“In her novel, she smartly and creatively shapes the structure and builds an effective, lavish and dramatic epic work about the Bulgarian “stormy 20 years” on the dividing line of the two centuries, resembling the processes that have taken place in Russia, for example, since the time of restructuring (“PEREASTROIKA”). The author looks for the metaphoric and moralistic summary of bygone tragic days of fracture, of deeply moving human sorrows and dramas, after which Bulgaria has dramatically changed her image.

With her novel “GLASS BUTTERFLIES” LUDMILA FILIPOVA has asserted herself as a capable and experienced author ready to enter unknown and virgin territory. “GLASS BUTTERFLIES” is written in modern style and contains both attractive and clear messages. It stands out among the most precious achievements of the contemporary Bulgarian prose, a phenomenon which is yet to be judged on its merits. Being aware of what kind of explosion hazardous matter is dealing with the author uses the dexterities of drama, fabulousness, tense thriller investigation and documentary fiction, placing the plot of her novel from 1999 to 2026 having the clear vision that the problems she is taking up which barely no one has jet paid attention to appears to be extremely topical, meaningful and worth the efforts of two years of hard work that accompanied the delivery of the novel.