The Towers of Trebizond
Hailed as an utter delight, the most brilliant witty and charming book I have read since I can't remember when by The New York Times when it was originally published in 1956, Rose Macaulay's The Towers of Trebizond tells the gleefully absurd story of Aunt Dot, Father Chantry-Pigg, Aunt Dot's deranged camel, and our narrator, Laurie, who are traveling from Istanbul to legendary Trebizond on a convoluted mission. Along the way they will encounter spies, a Greek sorcerer, a precocious ape, and Billy Graham with a busload of evangelists. Part travelogue, part comedy, it is also a meditation on love, faith, doubt, and the difficulties, moral and i…
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- ISBN: 978-0-374-53363-2
- EAN: 9780374533632
- Produktnummer: 19431320
- Verlag: Macmillan USA
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 277 S.
- Masse: H20.9 cm x B14.0 cm x D1.8 cm 268 g
- Gewicht: 268
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