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In August 1922, during the Greek army's retreat from Asia Minor, Captain Anagnostou saves a precious document: a 13th-century manuscript transcribed into modern Greek in six notebooks. Its author is said to be the monk Efpsychios, writing at the Sosandra monastery on Mount Sipylus in Ionia. Ninety years later, in 2012, an elderly woman from Asia Minor gives the notebooks to a writer, setting in motion the great events of the age and the novelistic life of Efpsychios: the sack of Constantinople by the Crusaders in 1204, the Latin attempt to organise a state, and the struggle of the exiled Byzantines to build a kingdom in Asia Minor, the Empire of Nicaea, until they could retake the City.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

384 pages in the original

Genres

Historical (assigned by AI)

Set in

Türkiye, 1204–13th century

First published

2020 by Καστανιώτης

Author's age

55 when first published

ISBN

9789600368109 (original)