From the publisher:
This is Kazantzakis’s modern “Iliad”. Set in late-19th-century Crete, when a new uprising takes place to rival those of 1854, 1866 and 1878. In the village of Megalokastro, a Cretan resistance fighter named Captain Michales, is matched by the Turkish bey, his blood-brother.

Faber and Faber | Paperback 472 pp. |ISBN: 9780571178575