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- Author: Jenny White
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
- Year: 2009
- Pages: 400
- ISBN: 9780393072280
- ISBN-10: 0393072282
- ISBN-13: 9780393072280
- Format: ePub
- Language: English
The Abyssinian Proof: A Kamil Pasha Novel (Kamil Pasha Novels) (e-book) (used book) | bookbook.eu
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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.
- Author: Jenny White
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
- Year: 2009
- Pages: 400
- ISBN: 9780393072280
- ISBN-10: 0393072282
- ISBN-13: 9780393072280
- Format: ePub
- Language: English English
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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