Freedom and Death
Book Details
Author(s)
Nikos Kazantzakis
Publisher
Faber & Faber
ISBN / ASIN
057117857X
ISBN-13
9780571178575
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Sales Rank
#457,021
Category
Fiction
Marketplace
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Description
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.
