Freedom or Death is a novel on a heroic scale about the rebellion of the Greek Christians on the island of Crete against their Turkish conquerors. Against a background of compelling reality--the odors of lemon trees and saddle leather, guerrilla fighters, pack animals, and tobacco, Turkish bazaars and Aegean ports--Kazantzakis poses might opposites: Captain Michales and his blood brother, the noble Turk, Nuri Bey, fighting within a relationship of love and hatred, vendetta and patriotism.
This volume includes a preface by A. Den Doolaard.
Freedom or Death is a novel on a heroic scale about the rebellion of the Greek Christians on the island of Crete against their Turkish conquerors. Against a background of compelling reality--the odors of lemon trees and saddle leather, guerrilla fighters, pack animals, and tobacco, Turkish bazaars and Aegean ports--Kazantzakis poses might opposites: Captain Michales and his blood brother, the noble Turk, Nuri Bey, fighting within a relationship of love and hatred, vendetta and patriotism.
This volume includes a preface by A. Den Doolaard.