Freedom and Death
Nikos Kazantzakis
480 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 057117857X
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Language: English
Publish: January 1, 1995
20th CenturyClassicsFictionGreeceHistoricalHistorical FictionLiteratureNovelsTravelWar
This is Kazantzakis’s modern “Iliad”. Set in late-19th-century Crete, when a new uprising takes place to rival those of 1854, 1866 and 1878. In the village of Megalokastro, a Cretan resistance fighter named Captain Michales, is matched by the Turkish bey, his blood-brother.