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'A sailors labyrinth' is a novel based on real events, which occurred on a sailing cruise around the world between the years 2007 and 2010. Etienne, an executive of a multinational company, suffers an unsuspected change of his life and decides to cast off, letting himself be carried away by the wind. Without any experience or recourses he departs with an 11 metre sailing yacht made in 1984, looking for new experiences and a more genuine life. The novel represents the labyrinth of life through a transoceanic voyage under sails, where his character is transformed, and he becomes a different person. The story begins in the labyrinth in the cathedral in Chartres shortly before some unexpected events happen in Etienne's life, offering the opportunity of a new start. He decides to embark on a long sailing cruise over the oceans full of adversities (Collision with a whale, rescue on the high seas, cannibalism on the Marquesas Islands, a tsunami south of Samoa, a pirate's attack in Yemen, a black hole in the Arabian Sea, running aground on the coral reefs in the Red Sea, etc.). When he is just about to cross the Panama Canal, a woman appears unexpectedly changing the course of his voyage. Before he can reach his destination, Barcelona, after crossing the Suez Canal, he must go to hospital on the Island of Crete and has to put an end to his voyage. During his convalescence he visits the palace of Knossos and, observing the labyrinth of the Minotaur, becomes aware of the fact that the world of causalities does not exist. The end of his voyage around the world coincides with the search of the mystery that unites the Cretan labyrinth with the one of the cathedral of Chartres.

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