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Murder in Byzantium: A Novel
Julia Kristeva
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Description for Murder in Byzantium: A Novel
Hardback. Tells a suspenseful tale of perversity and loss. This book features an engrossing and sophisticated thriller that closely observes the mores, obsessions, and excesses of two temporally distinct yet surprisingly intimate worlds. Translator(s): Delogu, C. Jon. Num Pages: 264 pages, 3 maps, 7 black and white halftones. BIC Classification: FF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 245 x 165 x 23. Weight in Grams: 506.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231136365
SKU
V9780231136365
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About Julia Kristeva
Julia Kristeva is a renowned psychoanalyst, critic, and professor of linguistics at the Universite de Paris VII. She is the author of many acclaimed works and novels, including The Samurai, The Old Man and the Wolves, and Possessions, and is the recipient of the Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought and the Holberg International Memorial Prize.C. Jon Delogu is professor ... Read more
Reviews for Murder in Byzantium: A Novel
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 Julia Kristeva gives us a stimulating, joyous book. In a word, a great Byzantine novel.
Christine Rousseau Le Monde Readers will enjoy this concoction, which falls squarely in the Eco/Perez-Reverte tradition of mystery with ... Read more
Bernard-Henri Levy Le Point Julia Kristeva gives us a stimulating, joyous book. In a word, a great Byzantine novel.
Christine Rousseau Le Monde Readers will enjoy this concoction, which falls squarely in the Eco/Perez-Reverte tradition of mystery with ... Read more