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Murder in Byzantium (Paperback or Softback)
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- ISBN
- 0231136374
- EAN
- 9780231136372
- Binding
- TP
- Item Weight
- 14.5 Oz
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Item Width
- 5.9 in
- Item Height
- 0.7 in
- Book Title
- Murder in Byzantium : a Novel
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Publication Year
- 2008
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Psychological, Crime, Historical, Mystery & Detective / General
- Number of Pages
- 264 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Columbia University Press
ISBN-10
0231136374
ISBN-13
9780231136372
eBay Product ID (ePID)
64357167
Product Key Features
Book Title
Murder in Byzantium : a Novel
Number of Pages
264 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Psychological, Crime, Historical, Mystery & Detective / General
Publication Year
2008
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Fiction
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
14.5 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
5.9 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Reviews
" Murder in Byzantium is an intriguing and bold venture... A real Kristevan joy ride." -- Adi Drori-Avraham, The Liberal, " "Murder in Byzantium" is an intriguing and bold venture... A real Kristevan joy ride." -- Adi Drori-Avraham, "The Liberal", "Readers will enjoy this concoction, which falls squarely in the Eco/Perez-Reverte tradition of mystery with a moral." -- Kirkus, "Julia Kristeva gives us a stimulating, joyous book. In a word, a great Byzantine novel." -- Christine Rousseau, "Le Monde", "This is no 'novel'....It is inflammatory, argumentative, ranting, full of history, prose suggestion, education... and a relay of truth." -- Tony Gurney, "New Criminologist", "Kristeva doesn't skimp on plot or suspense... Buy it for the Dan Brown fan in your life." -- Matt Thorne, The Independent Online Edition, "Julia Kristeva gives us a stimulating, joyous book. In a word, a great Byzantine novel." -- Christine Rousseau, Le Monde, "This is no 'novel'....It is inflammatory, argumentative, ranting, full of history, prose suggestion, education... and a relay of truth." -- Tony Gurney, New Criminologist, "There are philosophical observations, trenchant comments and deep historical events in this book, but it's also a lot of old-fashioned fun." -- Margaret Cannon, "Globe and Mail", This is no 'novel'....It is inflammatory, argumentative, ranting, full of history, prose suggestion, education... and a relay of truth., Readers will enjoy this concoction, which falls squarely in the Eco/Perez-Reverte tradition of mystery with a moral., "There are philosophical observations, trenchant comments and deep historical events in this book, but it's also a lot of old-fashioned fun." -- Margaret Cannon, Globe and Mail, There are philosophical observations, trenchant comments and deep historical events in this book, but it's also a lot of old-fashioned fun., "This is a novel of which we have not seen the like since Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose." -- Bernard-Henri Levy, Le Point
Dewey Edition
22
Grade From
College Graduate Student
Dewey Decimal
843/.914
Synopsis
Moving from the First Crusade to the sun-dappled, cultural wasteland of present-day Santa Varvara, Julia Kristeva's deftly-plotted, multilayered novel tells a suspenseful tale of perversity and loss. In the eleventh-century, a serial killer murders the members of a dubious religious sect called the New Pantheon, leaving a mysterious figure eight drawn on their corpses. In the present, Sebastian Chrest-Jones, a noted professor of human migrations, disappears while on a quest to learn more about his ancestor who roamed across Europe during the First Crusade. Detective Northrop Rilsky and French journalist Stephanie Delacour are on the case, trying desperately to piece together the two-part mystery in the midst of an unexpected love affair. In the tradition of A. S. Byatt, Susan Sontag, and Ian McEwan, Kristeva writes an engrossing and sophisticated thriller that closely observes the mores, obsessions, and excesses of two temporally distinct yet surprisingly intimate worlds., Deftly Moving from the First Crusade to the sun-dappled, cultural wasteland of present-day Santa Varvara, Kristeva tells the two-fold story of an eleventh-century serial killer and a noted professor who disappears on a quest to learn more about his ancestor. Kristeva's recurring characters, detective Northrop Rilsky and the French journalist Stephanie Delacour, desperately try to piece together both mysteries in the midst of a passionate love affair., In this absorbing, suspenseful novel Julia Kristeva combines social satire, medieval history, philosophy, psychoanalytic theory, and autobiography within a gruesome murder mystery. Murder in Byzantium deftly moves from eleventh-century Europe, wracked by the turbulence of the First Crusade, to the sun-dappled, cultural wasteland of present-day Santa Varvara, threatened by religious cults, gangs, and a serial killer on the loose. This killer is murdering members of a dubious religious sect, the New Pantheon, and leaving a mysterious figure eight drawn on their corpses. Meanwhile, Sebastian Chrest-Jones, a noted professor of human migrations, clandestinely writing a novel about the Byzantine princess-historian Anna Comnena, disappears on a quest to learn more about an ancestor who roamed across Europe to Byzantium during the First Crusade. Kristeva's recurring characters, detective Northrop Rilsky and the French journalist Stephanie Delacour, step in and desperately try to piece together the two-part mystery in the midst of their unexpected love affair. In the tradition of Umberto Eco, Susan Sontag, and Ian McEwan, Kristeva skillfully weaves philosophical and critical ideas into her fiction. Peering into the mores, obsessions, and excesses of contemporary society, Kristeva offers an engrossing portrait of Santa Varvara, a paradoxical place of sunshine and pollution where skeletons lurk in the closets of politicians and oil company executives. Her descriptions of the First Crusade and the Byzantine Empire vividly evoke a distant past while speaking to such contemporary concerns as immigration, fundamentalism, terrorism, and the East-West divide. Murder in Byzantium is also the only work in which Kristeva explores her Bulgarian roots. In the midst of this rich, multilayered historical novel, Kristeva also presents three stunning, closely observed, and interlocking portraits of characters struggling with loss and emptiness in their personal histories and day-to-day lives.
LC Classification Number
PQ2671.R547
Copyright Date
2008
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