The Towers of Trebizond A Novel

by Macaulay, Rose

• ISBN13: 9780374533632
• ISBN10: 0374533636
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-10-30
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Summary

Hailed as "an utter delight, the most brilliant witty and charming book I have read since I can't remember when" by The New York Timeswhen it was originally published in 1956, Rose Macaulay's The Towers of Trebizondtells the gleefully absurd story of Aunt Dot, Father Chantry-Pigg, Aunt Dot's deranged camel, and our narrator, Laurie, who are traveling from Istanbul to legendary Trebizond on a convoluted mission. Along the way they will encounter spies, a Greek sorcerer, a precocious ape, and Billy Graham with a busload of evangelists. Part travelogue, part comedy, it is also a meditation on love, faith, doubt, and the difficulties, moral and intellectual, of being a Christian in the modern world.

Author Biography

Dame Rose Macaulay, one of the most popular writers and personalities in England from the 1920s until her death in 1958, was a friend to the likes of E. M. Forster and Virginia Woolf. She was the author of more than thirty-five books; Towers of Trebizond is her masterpiece.