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The Abyssinian Proof

✍ Scribed by Jenny White

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Year: 2008;2009
Tongue: English
Weight: 217 KB
Edition: First Norton paperback
Category: Fiction
ISBN: 0393072282

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✦ Synopsis

"An immensely enjoyable read, richly textured and wonderfully atmospheric."--Sarah GravesConstantinople, May 1453. In the dying days of the Byzantine Empire, Isaak Metochites and his family are entrusted with a silver reliquary carved with the figure of a weeping angel and the inscription: Behold the Proof of Chora, Container of the Uncontainable. Four hundred years later, magistrate Kamil Pasha is plagued by thefts of antiquities from mosques and churches and a series of murders in which the bodies bear the same distinctive mark. Sources lead Kamil to a hidden sect descended from Abyssinian slaves living in an abandoned cistern in Istanbul's gritty underworld. The reemergence of the forgotten reliquary sets off a brutal race between those sworn to protect it and those who will stop at nothing to gain its explosive secret.

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