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The Secret of the Origin: Final Journey to the Middle Lands
Paperback
Series: The Saga of the Middle Lands, Book 3
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 28 2025
Pages: 182
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.39 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Marco thought he had reached the end of the journey.
But some questions never stop following you. They simply wait until you are ready to listen.
After years marked by failures, lost loves, family distances, and constant attempts to escape himself, Marco returns once again to the Middle Lands, suspended places between memory and the present, between Greece and Italy, between desire and truth. Corfu, Turin, small cafés by the sea, and roads travelled countless times become inner landscapes where every encounter reopens questions that were never truly resolved.
Alongside him return the people who shaped his path: Valeria, the symbol of a love both authentic and fragile; Barbara, a reminder that there is no precise moment when we stop loving and that life can still surprise us when everything already seems written; Carlo, the son through whom Marco begins to understand the deepest meaning of human inheritance; Elena, living memory of his origins and of the Greek roots of his family.
But the real journey is invisible.
Guided by the Aristotelian idea of telos, the deeper purpose toward which every human being moves, Marco confronts the mystery that runs through the entire trilogy: does a Secret of the Origin truly exist? Or does the meaning of life reside precisely in the search itself, in the wounds, the mistakes, and the bonds that transform us?
Through philosophical reflections, intense dialogues, Mediterranean nostalgia, and moments of profound humanity, The Secret of the Origin brings The Saga of the Middle Lands to its conclusion with a story that blends introspection, emotion, and existential inquiry.
This is not simply a novel about the destiny of one man.
It is a story about the universal need to find our place in the world, to understand who we truly are, and to accept that perhaps the most important answers never arrive all at once, but slowly grow within us along the journey.
The Secret of the Origin - Final Journey to the Middle Lands is the concluding chapter of The Saga of the Middle Lands, an intense and deeply human work about fragility, desire, memory, love, and authenticity.
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