After their studies, the couple go on many adventures and live many lives over the course of centuries. Seven years of study within the caves reveals to them the secrets of immortality, which has to do with the elements of fire, air, water, and earth. They find the Bandaloop caves empty and settle into them. Kudra, now a woman, appears in the monastery and convinces Alobar to give the wise men one more try. He settles in a nearby monastery for 20 years, during which time he barely ages a day. Alobar meets the Bandaloop in the Himalayan mountains but does not find them immediately helpful. Both Pan and Kudra are familiar with death and express a desire for some alternative to it. In his travels East, Alobar meets the Greek god Pan and an eight-year-old Hindu girl named Kudra. With the advice of a shaman, he sets off for the country of the Bandaloop because, he is told, they have discovered the secrets of immortality. Alobar decides that he would prefer never to die. After a year, however, another set of arbitrary norms threaten to cut his life short.
This attempt fails, and he escapes with one of the members of his harem, settling down in a distant village. It is customary to kill and replace the king at the first sign of decline, so Alobar attempts to hide the evidence. Though the book opens on these modern-day characters’ lives, they take second stage in Parts 1 through 3 and return to the narrative’s forefront in Part 4.Ī thousand years in the past, King Alobar, the ruler of a small, proto-Bohemian kingdom, discovers signs that he is aging.
They all receive anonymous deliveries of beets. Claude and Marcel, members of the famous LeFever family, run a perfume corporation in Paris. Lily Devalier runs a small parfumerie in New Orleans with the assistance of V’lu. Priscilla Partido, a quick-witted waitress, lives in Seattle. The novel quickly introduces the main characters.
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