| Abyssinian Proof: A Kamil Pasha Novel Contributor(s): White, Jenny (Author) |
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ISBN: 0393333728 ISBN-13: 9780393333725 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company OUR PRICE: $26.55 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2009 Annotation: Nineteenth-century Istanbul thrills in this page-turner about a conspiracy to steal an ancient reliquary whose secret could change the world. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - Historical |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Series: Kamil Pasha Novels (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 5.5" W x 8.25" (0.71 lbs) 412 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Cultural Region - Turkey |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): White, Jenny: - Jenny White is the author of the Kamil Pasha series: The Sultan's Sea (a finalist for the Ellis Peters Historical Crime Award), The Abyssinian Proof and The Winter Thief. She is a professor of anthropology at Boston University, specializing in Turkey. |