Slaves to Desire

Charles Baudelaire, Rasputin, Anna Karenina, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet and Ophelia, Fyodor Dostoevsky, George Sand, Frederic Chopin, Vincent van Gogh, Antonin Artaud, Maria Izquierdo, James Joyce, Federico Garcia Lorca, Salvador Dali. What awaits Anna Karenina on the other side? Can Rasputin find redemption? Does passion still flow through the veins of the lovers from Verona? Can Hamlet and Ophelia escape their fate? Is Van Gogh's loneliness a blessing or a curse? What hides behing George Sand's yearning? Can Dali dispel Lorca's fear? Eli Gilic deftly weaves fact and fiction to bring some of the world's great writers, literary characters, artists, and composers to life as they reach the heights of passion and the depths of despair in this mesmerizing erotic short story collection.