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| Original Title: | The Towers of Trebizond |
| ISBN: | 159017058X (ISBN13: 9781590170588) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | Turkey |
| Literary Awards: | James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction (1956) |
Rose Macaulay
Paperback | Pages: 296 pages Rating: 3.69 | 1317 Users | 237 Reviews
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"'Take my camel, dear,' said my aunt Dot, as she climbed down from this animal on her return from High Mass." So begins The Towers of Trebizond, the greatest novel by Rose Macaulay, one of the eccentric geniuses of English literature. In this fine and funny adventure set in the backlands of modern Turkey, a group of highly unusual travel companions makes its way from Istanbul to legendary Trebizond, encountering potion-dealing sorcerers, recalcitrant policemen, and Billy Graham on tour with a busload of Southern evangelists. But though the dominant note of the novel is humorous, its pages are shadowed by heartbreak as the narrator confronts the specters of ancient empires, religious turmoil, and painful memories of lost love.
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| Title | : | The Towers of Trebizond |
| Author | : | Rose Macaulay |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 296 pages |
| Published | : | November 30th 2003 by NYRB Classics (first published 1956) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Travel. Classics. Humor. European Literature. British Literature. Historical. Historical Fiction. Literature. 20th Century |
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Ratings: 3.69 From 1317 Users | 237 ReviewsArticle Containing Books The Towers of Trebizond
I didn't howl, no, but I certainly snorted in quite a few places.Yes, it is funny and absurd and all over the place and skewers travel books and travel writers and publishing and the press and spying and the iron curtain (Burgess and Maclean) and it's incredibly erudite too, with Xenophon and the Euxine Sea and Priam and Hecuba and translators of the Classics and people travelling round these ancient places with an ancient guidebook in their hand and only seeing what they already know, and theoh to travel, isn't that just the thing, everyone's favorite hobby, to get away and have adventures, see life from different angles, take in history and view the panorama of the world all at the same time, you go some wheres and see some things, but unless you are traveling for pure thrill-seeking or just to find a new setting to drink and to flirt, you go to someplace and see those things and you are really seeing all the things before them, the history of a place, reading and thinking and
Aside from the brilliant first line this book had the hardest beginning 15 pages I might have ever read. I consider myself pretty well read with a fairly extensive vocabulary and I was lost amongst the obscure religious terms, random capitalization, run-on sentences and excessive use of "said" as a verb. Disappointing since the book's premise had such promise. There were a few moments of brilliance and some great quotes but too little, too late. Not much of a plot here either. I know books are
I've changed my mind and I'm awarding the full 5★. I found the ending a bit abrupt and the change in tone quite startling - but it is 20th century. That was the way 20th century fiction rolled!Or is it fiction? I've read a review that describes this novel as a roman à clef which is certainly how it feels. Definitely a satire about the travels of the wide-eyed and guileless Laurie and her travels through Turkey and beyond.I found this old map helpful; It isn't long before you realise the camel
Read this as part of a challenge on Goodreads. Thoroughly enjoyed it and think that it is one of those novels that can be read more than once to gain further insight.The story unfolds through the eyes of Laurie as she travels with her eccentric Aunt Dot and the High Anglican Father Hugh Chantry-Pigg. Their mission is to "spread the word" to the Muslim world.Along the way they encounter various "personalities". This novel has a wonderful opening line that sets the tone for the story. I really
I should probably warn people that I'm on a weird kick of 1950s English popular fiction by women. And this was enormously popular when it came out. A young woman accompanies her aunt and a priest on a tour of Turkey. There are a lot of jokes about Anglicanism, many more than I thought were possible, actually. This was intriguing on several levels -- it's fairly interesting right there on the surface, and also a great look at the time when it was written, and fun to compare and contrast to what
Truthfully, two 5 stars in one week!! THANK YOU, GR friends- and both from genre less visited.An absolute masterpiece. OMG, why is it so rare that this level of wit, erudite comparison and pure exuberance can be filtered into less than 300 (277)pages within the last 50 years? Well- no review or synopsis here of plot because others on this page have done it better. But this travel covers not just Turkey and other countries in the Mideast (early 1950's) but also discourse and depth of comparison
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