FREEDOM DEATH P

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 Chrisianity 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.

subjects: Fiction,  History,  Modern Greek literature,  Fiction (fictional works by one author),  Fiction, general,  Greece, fiction,  Historical fiction

Places: Crete (Greece)