EXPRAEDIUM

<p class=ql-align-justify>EXPRAEDIUM is a 2024 Finalist of two significant literary awards in the highly contested Literary Fiction category namely the Feathered Quill Book Awards and the American Writing Awards and has received astounding critical praise from several literary experts.</p><p class=ql-align-justify>A singular provocation of a novel rendering a mad world in a madder language. A hoedown in the ruins of civilization. Especially for readers predisposed toward the Joycean the Pynchonian.<strong>--<em>Publishers Weekly.</em></strong></p><p>I have never encountered a book quite like <em>Expraedium</em> before. Its language is formulated through an origin that remains enigmatic. The author does not seem to write to impress and it is difficult to grasp his intentions. Each line unfolds as if it were an entirely different story of its own. <em>Expraedium</em> remains an unforgettable reading experience that has left a lasting impression on me. <strong>--Maria Yinks<em> Manhattan Book Review. </em></strong></p><p>I wasn't sure what to expect when I decided to read <em>Expraedium</em>. But what I most certainly did not expect was to find consistently one of the most creatively philosophically culturally semantically and thematically ambitious novels I've ever read in my entire life.</p><p>I am struck by the extraordinary writing vision and perhaps rarest of all originality which abounds in every way and at so many levels and depths of meaning theme narrative etc. that I had to keep slowing my pace until I could read and inhale each word. . . . Now that I've reached the conclusion I am simply in awe. 'Wow!!!!' in the vernacular.</p><p>I'll always be with you in spirit and ever-growing admiration of who you are as a literary artist and as one of the finest people I've ever known.</p><p class=ql-align-right><strong>Paul McCarthy Professor of English (Former Senior Acquisitions Editor at Simon & Schuster Harper Collins and Doubleday)</strong></p><p></p><p><strong><em> </em></strong>Referred to as cobra poison and the work of the Antichrist by international religious figures as anti-literature by the author <em>Expraedium</em> is an incendiary and energetic tour-de-force that mercilessly skewers religion national identity economics gender social mores and the very structure of language itself<strong>.</strong></p><p><em>Expraedium</em> inverts the parochial notions of language that control the evolution of identity and human expression. It opens floodgates into the English language destabilizing it to its core yet enriching it in unprecedented ways<strong>.</strong></p><p class=ql-align-justify>Equal parts satire and philosophy polemic and prophecy <em>Expraedium</em> explores Brathki's journeys via dysfunctional social and cultural strata in his epic search for the land of Urmashu igniting the protagonist's inimitable voice--a voice at once acerbic oracular and obscure<strong>.</strong></p><p class=ql-align-justify><em>Expraedium</em> has been called heartbreaking and diabolical as well as brutally raw painfully honest earning the author praise and death threats interrogations censorship and suppression even before the work's initial release<strong>.</strong></p><p class=ql-align-justify><em>Expraedium</em> is an explosive condemnation of the very canon of Western civilization. Rejecting the protocols of the conventional novel Melikian has crafted one of the most unique ambitious and unforgettable voices in modern literature. A voice that has much deeper ramifications for civilization than literature itself. A voice that is as inspiring as it is infuriating as damning as it is uproariously funny and as fragmented as it is astute; a voice that reminds us of the very limits of our finitude and our unquenchable thirst to overcome it<strong>.</strong></p>