About this audiobook
A Phoenician boy's search for his father opens a route through the ancient Mediterranean world. Travel brings him into contact with sailors, unfamiliar places and dangers that make his journey more than a simple passage between ports. The sea connects different societies while exposing travellers to forces they cannot easily control.
Vasily Yan combines adventure with an interest in the material life of antiquity. Ships, trade and the knowledge needed for a voyage help shape the action. Encounters with people of different backgrounds give the young traveller reasons to reassess appearances, depend on others and recognise how vulnerable a person can be far from home.
The story explores courage, companionship and the desire for freedom within a historical setting. Its movement across the Mediterranean places private hopes within a wider world of exchange and unequal power, making the search for a missing parent also an encounter with the limits and possibilities of trust.
