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Constantinople, May 1453. In the dying days of the Byzantine Empire, Isaak Metochites and his family are entrusted with a silver reliquary carved with the figure of a weeping angel and the inscription: Behold the Proof of Chora, Container of the Uncontainable. Four hundred years later, magistrate Kamil Pasha is plagued by thefts of antiquities from mosques and churches and a series of murders in which the bodies bear the same distinctive mark. Sources lead Kamil to a hidden sect descended from Abyssinian slaves living in an abandoned cistern in Istanbul's gritty underworld. The reemergence of the forgotten reliquary sets off a brutal race between those sworn to protect it and those who will stop at nothing to gain its explosive secret.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Abyssinian Proof
• Subtitle: A Kamil Pasha Novel
• Author: Jenny White
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400
• EAN: 9780393333725
• ISBN: 0393333728
• ID: 04604612
• Publisher: WW Norton & Co
• Weight: 320 g
• Dimensions: 210 × 139 × 25 mm
• Date of publishing: 27. March 2009

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