Montenegro

In the forbidding beauty of the mountains of Montenegro, with World War I already a dark prophecy on the horizon, an English traveller with a keen interest in the tangled politics of the Balkans happens upon a remote valley. Auberon Harwell is the confidential agent of a powerful English peer who sees advantage in the decline of the Ottoman Empire and threat in the rise of Austria-Hungary. Caught between these powers are the Montenegrin Serbs, whose greatest hero is Danilo Pekocevic patriarch of the valley. He dreams of yet another empire, the one his ancestors lost to the Turks on the Field of Kosovo five hundred years ago. His only son, Toma, loves a girl he cannot marry, the daughter of a neighboring Muslim landowner. Harwell, against all reason and hope, falls in love with Toma's mother, who prays that her son may emigrate to escape this burden of violence and vengeance. Will Harwell help her? Both Harwell and Toma are bound by agonizing choices and the obligations of honor, duty, and love. From these flow the events of a memorable drama that sets individual destinies, vividly imagined, against the taut background of an unfinished history.

המשפט הראשון: HARWELL HAD ALWAYS prided himself on being a good sailor and a perfectly rational man, but he had been so miserably and unaccountably seasick since the steamer left Trieste two days earlier that it was difficult to accept this affliction as anything other than an omen.

שנה

1997

שפה

English

הוצאה

Berkley

מהדורות

4

עמודים

350

ISBN

9780425164464

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata