The Abyssinian Proof: A Kamil Pasha Novel (Kamil Pasha Novels)W. W. Norton & Company, 16.03.2009 - 400 Seiten "An immensely enjoyable read, richly textured and wonderfully atmospheric."—Sarah Graves 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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The Abyssinian Proof: A Kamil Pasha Novel (Kamil Pasha Novels) Jenny White Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2009 |
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Abdullah Allah Amida Balkis Balkis's believe börek Byzantine caretaker Charshamba chest cigarette cistern Courtidis dark divan door Elif Elif's eyes face Fatih Fatih Mosque feet felt Feride fingers floor glass Gudit Habesh hamam Hamdi Bey hand Hanoum heard Huseyin imam inside Isaak Ismail Hodja Istanbul jacket Kamil asked Kamil Pasha Kamil saw Kamil thought Kamil took Kamil turned Kamil wondered Kapanou Kariye Mosque killed knew knife Kubalou lamp laughed leaned Magistrate Melisites midwife Mimoza monstrance mother Muslim never night Nizam Pasha nodded Omar Ottoman Owen police policeman prayer priestess Proof Proof of God pulled pushed reliquary remembered Remzi Saba Saba's servant shook his head shoulder sitting smile someone stolen stood Sunken Village sure tell Theodore Metochites There's thing told tunnel Uncle Malik voice waited walked wall watched woman Yakup young