Y, a novel: poetry, love, nature

This is the book you've always been waiting for! It's a beautiful love story, woven with elements of mystery and adventure in nature. As the two protagonists get to know each other, they discover something astonishing about the history of poetry, art, and science. They ask a strange but revealing question: What if the most ancient love songs never disappeared but can still be heard today, echoing across every continent? Written by a bestselling author and a researcher, this book is based on research that went viral in 2025, receiving coverage from the weekly podcast of the journal Science, major newspapers around the world, and more than 10K shares, comments, and reactions in less than a week's time on social media. Narrated with the precision and momentum of a blockbuster, the story unfolds over 100 chapters, with a prologue and an epilogue. Every line is a poem. >Ideal for readers who enjoyed Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code and Secret of Secrets. This book stands apart through the power of its plot. The prologue begins with a founding figure of neuroscience on his deathbed. Other elements you will encounter include the Odyssey, jazz, the U.S. national anthem, the Song of the Sirens, the Song of Songs, prehistoric art in Central America, harp music in pharaonic Egypt, a gene shared by humans and butterflies, Sappho, the Rig Veda, the Romantic poet Eminescu, and the most ancient music ever unearthed: the Hymn to Nikala-a composition dating from 1400 BCE from Ugarit, present-day Syria.