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The towers of trebizond was published in 1956, and i think i read it first a year or two later. Complete summary of rose macaulays the towers of trebizond. So many people have professed their love for the towers of trebizond that i couldnt help but choose it over several other 1956 books, despite having already read three other. Librarian nancy pearls picks for the omnivorous reader the only thing that these books have in common is that nprs goto librarian likes them a lot. This new edition of rose macaulays 1956 novel follows aunt dot, father hughchantrypigg and laurie as they travel through turkey in order.
Ive not read the towers of trebizond, but rose macaulays pleasure of ruins is a wonderful book, the loving fruit of much travel, and much grubbing around in libraries. Strongly autobiographical, it treats with wistful humour and deep sadness the attractions of mystical christianity, and the irremediable conflict between adulterous love and the demands of the christian faith. But the towers of trebizond has been loved by many thousands of readers who have not the slightest interest in religion or those who lapse from it. In an hilarious novel set on an overland journey across turkey, the narrator encounters sorcerers, cops, and southern evangelists as she and her companion travel from istanbul to trebizond on a tourist adventure that quickly runs afoul of an ancient and sometimes unbendable culture.