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Messiah

A Novel

by Andrei Codrescu · 1999

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Set from December 1999 to Mardi Gras 2000, Messiah introduces two remarkable young women: Felicity, a girl detective in New Orleans, and Andrea, a Sarajevan orphan who has found asylum in Jerusalem after internment in a Serbian POW camp. Felicity and Andrea, both presciently self-aware, come to believe they are the two severed halves of a whole entity, eventually finding each other amid the chaos of millennial fervor. Their special mission: to fulfill an extraordinary destiny as Armageddon sweeps the earth.

FictionRapture (Christian eschatology)End of the worldPropheciesTwo thousand, A.D.MillennialismArmageddonMessiahTwo thousand, A.DFiction, religious