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Young Johannes

Mika Waltari

Young John renounces worldly pleasures and with a free mind and body seeks knowledge. Books are his passion and his only desire is to learn about Greek culture. His destination, Constantinople. He begins his "pilgrimages" in 1437, in a world of despair, anxiously experiencing the threat of the Ottomans and feverishly deliberating on the Union of the Churches. The long road to understanding himself leads him away from piety and morality, into a setting in which power, greed, strife, intrigue and passions take centre stage. His quest culminates in 1453, with the definitive event of the fall of Constantinople, as a violent coming of age of the world.


 


The book is available at the Library; Call. No.: 894.54133 Wal [in Greek].


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