<p><b>¿Those who lament that the novel has lost its prophecy should pay heed and cover-price: <i>Muck</i> is the future, both of Jerusalem and of literature. God is showing some rare good taste, by choosing to speak to us through Dror Burstein.¿ ¿Joshua Cohen, author of <i>Moving Kings </i>and <i>Book of Numbers</i></b><br><br>In a Jerusalem both ancient and modern, where the First Temple squats over the populace like a Trump casino, where the streets are literally crawling with prophets and heathen helicopters buzz over Old Testament sovereigns, two young poets are about to have their lives turned upside down. <br><br>Struggling Jeremiah is worried that he might be wasting his time trying to be a writer; the great critic Broch just beat him over the head with his own computer keyboard. Mattaniah, on the other hand, is a real up-and-comer¿but he has a secret he wouldn¿t want anyone in the literary world to know: his late father was king of Judah.<br><br>Jeremiah begins to despair, and