A magistrate in a country village protests the army's treatment of members of the barbarian tribes taken prisoner during a civil war and finds himself arrested as a traitor.

In Lisbon in 1904, a young man named Tom�as discovers an old journal. It hints at the existence of an extraordinary artifact that--if he can find it--would redefine history. Traveling in one of Europe's earliest automobiles, he sets out in search of this strange treasure. Thirty-five years later, a Portuguese pathologist devoted to the murder mysteries of Agatha Christie finds himself at the center of a mystery of his own and drawn into the consequences...

"I said to the Road, Where do you lead? The Road said, Be a leader and find out. It's okay to be afraid or to sometimes wander down the wrong path. What the Road Said encourages us to lead with kindness and purpose and remember that the most important thing we can do in life is to keep going."--Provided by publisher.

A new translation of a 1948 novel based on the Faust legend. The protagonist is Adrian Leverkuhn, a musical genius who trades his body and soul to the devil in exchange for 24 years of triumph as the world's greatest composer.