Remembrance |
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| Foreword by:
| Dusenberry, John |
| Author:
| Dusenberry, Michael |
| ISBN: | 978-1-9731-1464-2 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2017 |
| Publisher: | Independently Published
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $7.59 |
Book Description:
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"For we have empires moving back and forth, by turns waxing and waning, each of which believes itself to be the special friend of Heaven--I mean the Christians, the Moslems, and the Mongols."In his novel Remembrance, author Michael Dusenberry brings alive the tumultuous 13th Century (a time of the Seventh and Eighth Crusades) through the intertwining lives of Nikkal, a young pagan woman living beneath the ruins of ancient Megiddo in Israel, protected by her god El and a lion named...
More Description"For we have empires moving back and forth, by turns waxing and waning, each of which believes itself to be the special friend of Heaven--I mean the Christians, the Moslems, and the Mongols."In his novel Remembrance, author Michael Dusenberry brings alive the tumultuous 13th Century (a time of the Seventh and Eighth Crusades) through the intertwining lives of Nikkal, a young pagan woman living beneath the ruins of ancient Megiddo in Israel, protected by her god El and a lion named Pubal; Daniel, the young Jewish story-teller and musician she grows to love while nursing him back to health after he was attacked by a gang of Khwarazmian footpads; the Afghan Mongol warrior Kit-Buqa, eager to join Khan Hulagu to "avenge once and for all, and with no confusion or misunderstanding, the persecution of the prophet Jesus twelve centuries past"; Baibars, the leader of the Muslim Turks bent upon avenging the murder of his beloved Spray-of-Pearls; Louis IX, the crusading French king who would become a Saint; and King Louis' confidant, the Egyptian Christian Uqbah al-Ummi who would experience a wondrous epiphany.