Freedom and Death
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Author(s)Nikos Kazantzakis
PublisherFaber & Faber
ISBN / ASIN057117857X
ISBN-139780571178575
AvailabilityUsually ships in 1-2 business days
Sales Rank457,021
CategoryFiction
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
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Freedom and Death is Kazantzakis's modern Iliad. The context is Crete in the late nineteenth century, the epic struggle between Greeks and Turks, between Christianity and Islam. A new uprising takes place to rival those of 1854, 1866 and 1878, and the island is thrown into confusion yet again. In the village of Megalokastro a Cretan resistance fighter, Captain Michales, is matched by the Turkish bey, his blood-brother. The life of the local community continues shakily, but is disrupted by explosions of violence.