Abyssinian Proof: A Kamil Pasha Novel - Brossura

White, Jenny

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0393333728 ISBN 13: 9780393333725

Casa editrice: W W Norton & Co Inc, 2009

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Under pressure to halt the activities of a smuggling ring that is responsible for the thefts and illegal sales of religious antiquities from the Ottoman Empire, Istanbul magistrate Kamil Pasha confronts an enigmatic adversary who is ruthlessly pursuing a sacred reliquary around which a mysterious sect has grown. 20,000 first printing. Reprint.

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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.

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• Editore: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0393333728
• ISBN 13: 9780393333725
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 400