Logan Crawford of Spotlight TV interviewed Izek Aliev, author of “The Last Illusion”
Izek Aliev, author of “The Last Illusion,” was interviewed by Spotlight TV’s Logan Crawford to talk about the author’s message and inspiration for this book.
Logan Crawford is an Emmy Award-winning broadcaster and anchor host. He is also a host and anchor on Ebru, WWOR-TV, FOX, and VOOM: HD NEWS. He appeared in a number of films and television shows, including The Irishman (2019), The First Purge (2018), Teenage Mutant Ninja, 40-Love (2021), and many others.
Izek Aliev was born in Baku, Azerbaijan, in the Soviet Union. He simultaneously graduated from a general education school and a 10-year music school, taking piano in 1972. In the same year, he entered the Geology and Geography Department of Azerbaijan University. After graduation, he worked at the Institute of Sciences of Azerbaijan. In 1983, he defended his thesis and obtained his PhD.
In 1990, he was appointed head of the laboratory. In the early 1990s, Izek first showed himself in a new capacity and began to publish in Baku newspapers, covering the foreign policy issues of the young independent state of Azerbaijan. He was a freelancer for the newspaper “Freedom”. In 1995, Izek’s first book was published in Baku, “Self-Knowledge of the Amateur.”
In 1996, he and his family moved to the United States. Izek, like other immigrants, had to start from zero. He explored numerous jobs before discovering his destiny as a social worker. Since 2017, he has worked with a Russian publishing business on two novels, “Black Gold of the Russian Empire” and “The Last Illusion.” Experts praised his writings, and his novels were named to the “Russian Award” shortlist.
“The Last Illusion” by Izek Aliev presents the story of what happened two millennia ago on the eve of 2000. The main character of the story is the son of immigrants from the former USSR. This is a young, talented, and successful manager of a big American company; he is currently living and working in New York.
For the first time after 20 years, Josef travels back to the formal republics of the USSR, where he hopes to meet with his old friends. He is shaken by the things he knew there. All three of his friends had been killed in the Chechnya (Russia) and Karabakh (Azerbaijan) wars.
He becomes depressed and withdraws into himself when he returns to New York. Some of the night prophets come to him and entrust him with heavenly tasks. The prophets warn him that mankind is in danger and on the verge of self-destruction. This dangerous step must be avoided.
The new Messiah must restore confidence in the undivided Creator. To demonstrate to everyone that he is the actual Messiah, he wants to settle the extremely complicated Armenian-Azerbaijani Karabakh war and show them the Creator’s amazing might. In the Karabakh mountains, he unfortunately discovers both love and death.
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