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Title: The Towers of Trebizond (New York Review Books Classics) by Rose Macaulay, Jan Morris ISBN: 1-59017-058-X Publisher: New York Review of Books Pub. Date: January, 2004 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.83 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Magical, funny, learned, expansive, unique
Comment: Rose Macaulay's TOWERS OF TREBIZOND is unlike any other novel ever written. Basically a kind of travelogue of the narrator's travels through the Levant with her eccentric Aunt Dot, the smug Anglican Reverend Chantry-Pigg, and Aunt Dot's crazy camel (an important character in its own right), the novel comes to encompass much more: a meditation on East and West, a study of the contrasts between diffeerent forms of religion, and a very searching analysis of the need for religion in human experience. It's the kind of book you don't want to end, and even when it becomes somewhat wild and unbelievably allegorical (such as when the narrator trains an ape she acquires in Turkey to drive a car late in the work) you stay with it. It's the kind of book you can dip in again and again throughout your life: it works as well in bits and epigrams as it does as a sustained narrative.
Rating: 5
Summary: Delightful eccentrics travelling in Turkey
Comment: Three people set off to Turkey with different motives, the narrator with the intention of writing a travel book, her Great-Aunt Dot, a feminist who wants to investigate the position of women in Turkey, and Father Chantry-Pigg, an Angilcan (Episcopalian) missionary. Their experiences in Turkey are narrated with Rose macualay's usual wit. Rivalry between writers is amusingly treated as the narrator meets more people who are writing their own Turkey books, all suspicious of each other. Wishing to visit the site of Troy, she finds that there are an abundance of sites laying claim to that honour. A Turkish feminist who is convinced that the way forward for Turkish women is to wear hats like English ladies. This delightful book has a rather abruptly sad ending, but is a joy to read all the same.
Rating: 4
Summary: Multi-layered
Comment: I picked up "Towers of Trebizond" mainly because of the title, as I am an avid reader of literature and travel writing on Turley. Macaulay's books seems simple and a good laugh at the first read, but is a book with many layers of meaning. Even the genre of the book is hard to define. On first look it is just a novel, on the second look, it's similar to a travelogue and is no doubt written based on the author's personal experiences. On the third level, it's a dissertation on religion and morality. Through recounting the travels of a group of English missionaries in Turkey, Macaulay brings out the importance of the differences between the East and West, in religion and culture, and also how one sticks to one's impression of the unknown (in this case, Russia) though one has no actual experience or encounter in this regard. The book is illuminating in its discussion of relationships, love, betrayal, friendship, religion and morality and it's ultimately about lives and the choices we make in them. What's right or wrong is not absolute and instead is relative to the environment one lives in. Through the beguiling humour of her characters, Macaulay is able to discuss important issues we confront in our lives without taking sides or being judgemental and leaves us to make our own conclusion about what we value and deem important.
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Title: Jenny and the Cat Club: A Collection of Favorite Stories About Jenny Linsky (New York Review Children's Collection) by Esther Averill ISBN: 1590170474 Publisher: New York Review of Books Pub. Date: December, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Tenants of Moonbloom by Edward Lewis Wallant, Dave Eggers ISBN: 1590170709 Publisher: New York Review of Books Pub. Date: 09 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Three Bedrooms in Manhattan (New York Review Books Classics) by Georges Simenon, Marc Romano, Lawrence G. Blochman, Joyce Carol Oates ISBN: 159017044X Publisher: New York Review of Books Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Equal Danger by Leonardo Sciascia, Romano Carlin ISBN: 1590170628 Publisher: New York Review of Books Pub. Date: 10 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Dirty Snow by Georges Simenon, Louise Varese, William T. Vollmann ISBN: 1590170431 Publisher: New York Review of Books Pub. Date: 09 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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