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Sometimes like a vibrant painting and sometimes narrating the harsh reality, Janis Komnas, with the main companion being the stunningly beautiful, reckless, magical, generous, rebellious, saintly yet demonic Anthia, journeys through Istanbul from 1808 to 1831.
In the fabric of fiction intertwine the aroma of the Wind Hunter, which captivates the harems and the aristocrats, love affairs and adventurous paths with unexpected turns, silenced truths, concubines of patriarchs, the revolution of 1821 conveyed from the center of the Ottoman Empire, the European ambassadors selling women and children to the Turks, the “butchered” Osmanlis roaming to incite the Muslims, the massacres of Christians in Istanbul and Chios by the bestial Ottomans, Pontus, Dragatsani, Tripoli, Nafplio, Alexandria, Maniaki.
And more: harems, poverty, magnates, swarms of street vendors, charlatan priests, gangs of the streets, guilds of beggars, crypto-Christians, bustling and bright bazaars, enormous taverns, at the entrances of which stand homosexual boys and porters carrying the drunkards in baskets, slave markets, tortures, the dungeon and the police of the Patriarchate, holy water, the Great School of the Nation, love spells, odalisques, black and white eunuchs in the sultan's palace, the dazzling nights of Ramadan, dance parties, celebrations of the Rum, nautical adventures, and so much more.
And all under the shadow of desire, fear, and the mob, and through the tame and the wild, the beauty and the ugliness, the good and the evil, which may coexist in the same person and transform him, depending on the circumstances and situations he is called to face into saint, demon, saint, and demon.
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This creature seemed as if it had been born by all the gods of the world and baptized by the devils. If Adonis, according to the myths of ancient Greeks, was handsome, Anthias surpassed him two or three times. His hair was black as a raven's and long. Amidst filth and lice. His face was dirty and his clothes looked as if they had been taken from the cesspit. But these were just shadows of the needle. He shone like sapphire beneath the grime. His eyes were the green of the cypress, and his face seemed sculpted by the artists of all generations. And as he grew older, the days added their honey to him. No one met him for the first time without their gaze being hooked onto him. And his face had a boldness, a strange expression for which words had yet to be born to describe it. As if he had conquered the incorruptible, knew it, did not care, and mocked life and death.
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- Author
- Giannis Kalpouzos
- Publisher
- PSychogios
- Publishers
- Psychogios
- Type
- Historical Novel
- Subtitle
- To the City: a novel
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 776
- Release Date
- 11/2015
- Publication Date
- 2015
- Dimensions
- 14x21 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9786180111217
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