Pillar Island - A Minoan Novella (English Edition) [Kindle-editie] beoordelingen het boek quotes

This novel is set in the Bronze Age Aegean at a time when an enigmatic civilization emerged and disappeared, leaving magnificent works of art and architecture in the soil to be re-discovered 3500 years later. This was a time before Greek was the language spoken in Greece, and the Olympic gods had yet to appear on the scene.Other than most books about this era, this novel deals with everyday people and - thoroughly researched - brings them to life. If you expect a novel about cataclysm, doom, and end-of-the-world, you will be disappointed. No Thera eruption, no Minotaur. Instead you will meet the rich and multi-faceted world of Keft, which at that time was the most modern and futuristic of the world.We meet a young man from an isolated shepherd's village in a place which today we know by the name of Peloponnesus, but then was called Pelasgia. As the son of the village's eldest, he is destined to follow him as his heir, and so the yarn of his life appears predictable and well spun. Little does he know that soon he will be driven out of his familiar world and thrown into a universe of splendor beyond his imagination, but also intrigue and violence, much bigger than he is prepared for.            150'000 words (approx. 620 pages)