Research Catalog

Title

The shepherds of shadows / Harry Mark Petrakis ; with a foreword by Peter Bien.

Author

Petrakis, Harry Mark.

Publication

Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2008], ©2008.

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Details

Description

xix, 326 pages : maps; 23 cm

Summary

"Thirty-one years after Harry Mark Petrakis wrote the historical novel The Hour of the Bell - set in the first year of Greece's war of independence from the Turkish Empire - he now carries the narrative forward in his newest work, The Shepherds of Shadows. With this sequel, Petrakis captures the fury and ferocity of revolution in the country that formed the bedrock of Western culture." "Featuring many of the characters who appeared in the earlier book, The Shepherds of Shadows depicts the horrors of war in battle scenes that echo the visceral starkness of conflict found in Homer's Iliad. The novel also includes a vivid portrayal of Lord Byron, who, through his poetry, supported the cause of Greece's fight for independence, inspiring the world to provide aid and volunteers for the struggle. Byron himself traveled to Greece to join the war for liberation." "Woven through the tapestry of war are stories of the love of a young guerilla fighter for a Greek girl and her child, born of a brutal rape, as well as the love of the scribe, Xanthos, for a village woman widowed by the war. There are lyrical descriptions of a village wedding and of the rituals of a village funeral. And always there is the mystical, overpowering presence of the Greek landscape and its majestic past blending reality and myth."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• War stories
• Historical fiction
• Greece > History > War of Independence, 1821-1829 > Fiction

Genre/Form

• Historical fiction.
• War stories.

ISBN

• 9780809328635 (alk. paper)
• 0809328631 (alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2008012093
• 40016273422

OCLC

• ocn213408659
• 213408659
• SCSB-5454185

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries