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ISBN-10: 0374533636
ISBN-13: 9780374533632
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publish Date: 10/30/2012
Dimensions: 8.22" L, 5.52" W, 0.71" H

The Towers of Trebizond

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Overview

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 intellectual, of being a Christian in the modern world.

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Macaulay's meticulous, understated storytelling traces the hairline crack between laughter and tears, finds grand universals in ordinary foibles, and speaks, without blush or wink, of sin and repentance.–Paste Magazine

A small miracle of a novel.–Salon

It is an extraordinary novel, being not just a witty and lyrically written account of the journey of a heart and soul, but also, a beguiling history lesson, a masterclass in acute social observation, and a remarkable polemic on female emancipation and religious sectarianism.–The Independent

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Details

ISBN-10: 0374533636
ISBN-13: 9780374533632
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publish Date: 10/30/2012
Dimensions: 8.22" L, 5.52" W, 0.71" H
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