Publisher's Synopsis
Are you eager for an original fantastical adventure to sink your teeth into? Are you tired of all the books about elves and wizards? Do you want something darker, bloodier, full of the wildness of creation and brutally challenging the nature of imagination and escapism, the struggles of growing up and the need for fictions to survive? "An Adventure of Unparalleled Importance" is one such story. Do not expect a comfortable ride.
A nameless author sits alone in an old wooden shack. Ink touches paper. What follows is a tale of the deepest fantasy, a tale of imagination, of incredible creatures and fantastical lands, of dark struggles and wild adventure.
The heart of the tale, however, is an internal war, a bitter battle against growing up, and filled with chaos and confusion. As the adventure continues, things become darker, bleaker and fatalistic, the possibility of clinging on to one's imagination and fictions seeming increasingly impossible. The fight to keep on going no matter what becomes fierce and desperate, and in a story where fiction and fact, reality and fantasy, dream and wakefulness blur together, everything hinges on finding success.
This is a story about what lies between the child and the adult. It is about escapism, and what happens when it begins to fail.
The debut novel of Peter Setters, An Adventure of Unparalleled Importance is a darkly original metaphysical-fantasy for adult humans and similar creatures.
""A sapphire moon breathed its light over the sands, shading the land in a wash of blue midnight. The dunes looked like sleeping gods. Above, I saw a thin white moonbow bridge its way over the sky, connecting horizon to horizon. My chest felt charged and conductive, each inhalation I took pollinated by the electromantic atmosphere. I felt like I could spit lightning. I imagined arcs forking out from my mouth, branching out into the world like the roots of a tree, touching everything with my spirit, painting everything with a part of me, with my loves and desires, my hates and my dreams, transforming and terraforming under the paternal guidance of the dawning moon...""
