Gods of Aberdeen is a novel written by Micah Nathan, published in June 2005 by Simon & Schuster.
It was translated into Italian, Russian, Spanish, and Portuguese with the title The Last Alchemist.
The novel is written in first-person, and follows the freshman year of the narrator, Eric Dunne, a 16-year-old linguistic savant who attends fictional Aberdeen College, in the town of Fairwich, Connecticut.
The novel achieved best-seller status in Italy, selling over 40k copies.
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