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Livres anciens et modernes

White, Jenny

The Abyssinian Proof: A Kamil Pasha Novel

W. W. Norton & Company, 2009

17,50 €

Kalamos Books

(STREETSVILLE, Canada)

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Détails

Année
2009
ISBN
9780393333725
Lieu d'édition
New York
Auteur
White, Jenny
Éditeurs
W. W. Norton & Company
Thème
MYSTRY FICTION TURKEY ISTANBUL CONSTANTINOPLE
Description
S
Jaquette
Non
Etat de conservation
En excellent ètat
Reliure
Couverture souple
Dédicacée
Non
Premiére Edition
Non

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.