Description
Sometimes like a colorful painting and sometimes recounting the harsh reality, Tzanis Komnas, with his main companion the amazingly beautiful, prodigal, magical, generous, unruly, saint and demon Anthia, travels to Constantinople in 1808-1831. Entwined in the fabric of fiction are the Wind Chaser perfume, which drives the hanumisses and princesses crazy, loves and adventurous journeys with unexpected development, silenced truths, mistresses of patriarchs, the revolution of 1821 given from the center of the Ottoman Empire, the European ambassadors who sell women and children to the Turks, the "mutilated" Ottomans who circulate to enrage the Muslims, the massacres of the Christians of Constantinople and Chios by the brutalized Ottomans, Pontos, Dragatsani, Tripoli, Nafplion, Alexandria, Maniaki. And more: harems, poverty, tycoons, swarms of itinerant sellers, charlatan priests, street gangs, beggar guilds, crypto-Christians, noisy and glittering bazaars, huge taverns, at the entrances of which stand gay boys and chameleons to carry drunkards in coffins, slave markets , torture, the dungeon and the Patriarchate police, sacrileges, the Great School of the Genus, love spells, odalisques, black and white eunuchs in the Sultan's palace, the fancy nights of Ramadan, dances, Roman festivals, nautical adventures and many more . And all under the shadow of lust, fear and the mob, and through the tame and the wild, the beauty and the ugliness, the good and the bad, which may exist in the same man and transform him, according to the conditions and the situations he is called to face in saint, demon, saint and demon.
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