Answer of the stars

Author's name: Jack London Publisher: Hayat Publications for Publishing Year of publication: 2025 About the book: "An investigation into the unlimited potentials of the human mind, and the resilience of the human spirit." – Vidhyayana magazine, August 2022 "A true pursuit of the myths of the unconscious." – Andrew Sinclair "Few literary works, like this novel, are able to make us feel physically, the weight of what confines us, and the strength of what makes us limitless." – Lorenzo Carcateriadaril Standing, a university professor serving a life sentence for murder. His jailer tries to break his spirit with a torture device called "the jacket," a thick cloth jacket tightly fastened to compress his entire body, causing him a heart attack. Standing invents mental methods to escape his reality and enter a mystical state, where he walks among the stars, escapes the horror of life in prison, and lives through many previous lives, living as a French noble or an English man in medieval Korea. The story is based on the life and prison of Ed Morel, a friend of Jack London, and is considered one of his most complex and authentic works.