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The Shades of Istanbul: A Novel with Ghosts

Livingston T Merchant

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Description:David Fordyce, a young professor from a small New England college, arrives in Istanbul with an arrangement to teach at Bosporus University and a grant to study certain questions in the history of the Greek Orthodox church. Istanbul is an enchanting city, but he soon discovers it is enchanted as well. The space-time continuum is not as fixed as he imagined it to be, and soon he is encountering two persons from the past, Cyril, a fifth century Greek Gnostic monk, a heretic of great warmth and charm, and Cyril's companion, Hasan, a Sufi mystic from the twelfth century. The bizarre appearances begin at a performance of the Whirling Dervishes, which he attends with Marie, a Belgian woman who will soon become the central focus of his life in Turkey. David and Marie have both suffered the loss of their spouses a few years previously, and this loss has both of them questioning belief in a loving God. The story weaves in and out of the present and the past and from central Anatolia to a Coptic monastery in ancient Egypt to a Gnostic community on a Greek island. The question that concerns David, Marie, the monk, and the dervish is why God, if there is a God, allows the innocent to suffer. This is a metaphysical novel, a trip through time, and a love story. And it asks more questions than it answers.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Shades of Istanbul: A Novel with Ghosts. To get started finding The Shades of Istanbul: A Novel with Ghosts, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 174

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Release: 2013

ISBN: 1494481421

Description: David Fordyce, a young professor from a small New England college, arrives in Istanbul with an arrangement to teach at Bosporus University and a grant to study certain questions in the history of the Greek Orthodox church. Istanbul is an enchanting city, but he soon discovers it is enchanted as well. The space-time continuum is not as fixed as he imagined it to be, and soon he is encountering two persons from the past, Cyril, a fifth century Greek Gnostic monk, a heretic of great warmth and charm, and Cyril's companion, Hasan, a Sufi mystic from the twelfth century. The bizarre appearances begin at a performance of the Whirling Dervishes, which he attends with Marie, a Belgian woman who will soon become the central focus of his life in Turkey. David and Marie have both suffered the loss of their spouses a few years previously, and this loss has both of them questioning belief in a loving God. The story weaves in and out of the present and the past and from central Anatolia to a Coptic monastery in ancient Egypt to a Gnostic community on a Greek island. The question that concerns David, Marie, the monk, and the dervish is why God, if there is a God, allows the innocent to suffer. This is a metaphysical novel, a trip through time, and a love story. And it asks more questions than it answers.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Shades of Istanbul: A Novel with Ghosts. To get started finding The Shades of Istanbul: A Novel with Ghosts, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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