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White, Jenny

The Abyssinian Proof: A Kamil Pasha Novel

W. W. Norton & Company, 2009

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Year of publication
2009
ISBN
9780393333725
Place of printing
New York
Author
White, Jenny
Publishers
W. W. Norton & Company
Keyword
MYSTRY FICTION TURKEY ISTANBUL CONSTANTINOPLE
Binding description
S
Dust jacket
No
State of preservation
Fine
Binding
Softcover
Inscribed
No
First edition
No

Description

Constantinople, May 1453. In the dying days of the Byzantine Empire, Isaak Metochites and his family are entrusted with a silver reliquary carved with the figure of a weeping angel and the inscription: Behold the Proof of Chora, Container of the Uncontainable. Four hundred years later, magistrate Kamil Pasha is plagued by thefts of antiquities from mosques and churches and a series of murders in which the bodies bear the same distinctive mark. Sources lead Kamil to a hidden sect descended from Abyssinian slaves living in an abandoned cistern in Istanbul's gritty underworld. The reemergence of the forgotten reliquary sets off a brutal race between those sworn to protect it and those who will stop at nothing to gain its explosive secret.