title: Prometheus in Dante's Hell
author: Bissundyal, Churaumanie
description: A psychological thriller with romance and adventure, Prometheus in Dante’s Hell moves with roller-coaster speed through cinematic writing of words in music. It explores the pain and fear of protagonist Brian Prometheus Brady in a salving of beauty and love spanning settings in Belfast, Brazil, America and Guyana. With an existentialist theme of finding heaven in hell, this work travels through the mortal, surrealist and infernal planes, placing Brian between ecstasies and suffering; danger and discovery. As it captures blood curdling scenes, it relaxes in oases of love where Brian finds that though Yanari is a simmering, wild woman, she exudes sweetness peculiar to the higher beauties of poetic worlds. Making love to her, he finds that if music announces the expression of God, then her body, the pure source of his music, trumpets a way God wants the world to be; and the union between them hymns the highest place of God. The action starts at Ray John’s Angels’ Temple (a parallel of Jim Jones’s Peoples Temple) in Guyana and climaxes in the jungles of Upstate New York and the World Trade Centre, when “balls of fire and smoke spiral out from the North Tower, bodies plummeting down.”