A Long Day's Evening |
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| Translator:
| Aji, Aron
Stark, Fred |
| Author:
| Karasu, Bilge |
| ISBN: | 978-0-87286-591-4 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 2012 |
| Publisher: | City Lights Books
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $24.99 |
Book Description:
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A relationship between two Byzantine monks in the 8th-century iconoclastic period provides a meditation on faith, memory and love. The dualities of dogma and faith, custom and law, truth and lie, image and signification, individual and society, East and West, Byzantium and Rome, are embodied in a story of prohibited love and devotion to the Unseen. A Turkish masterpiece.
A relationship between two Byzantine monks in the 8th-century iconoclastic period provides a meditation on faith, memory and love. The dualities of dogma and faith, custom and law, truth and lie, image and signification, individual and society, East and West, Byzantium and Rome, are embodied in a story of prohibited love and devotion to the Unseen. A Turkish masterpiece.