Freedom & Death
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket - paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Set against the turbulent backdrop of nineteenth-century Crete under Ottoman occupation, Freedom & Death is a sweeping historical novel that chronicles the fierce struggle of a people yearning for liberation. The story centres on Captain Michalis, a proud and passionate Cretan warrior whose burning desire for freedom becomes inseparable from his willingness to embrace death. Kazantzakis masterfully captures the raw, visceral spirit of Cretan resistance, painting a vivid portrait of honour, sacrifice, and national identity with the same epic grandeur he brought to Zorba the Greek. Written with the intensity and poetic force for which Kazantzakis is celebrated, the novel stands as one of the most powerful testaments to the human drive for dignity and self-determination in the face of oppression.
Author: Nikos Kazantzakis
Format: Paperback
Published: 1969, Faber and Faber
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket - paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Set against the turbulent backdrop of nineteenth-century Crete under Ottoman occupation, Freedom & Death is a sweeping historical novel that chronicles the fierce struggle of a people yearning for liberation. The story centres on Captain Michalis, a proud and passionate Cretan warrior whose burning desire for freedom becomes inseparable from his willingness to embrace death. Kazantzakis masterfully captures the raw, visceral spirit of Cretan resistance, painting a vivid portrait of honour, sacrifice, and national identity with the same epic grandeur he brought to Zorba the Greek. Written with the intensity and poetic force for which Kazantzakis is celebrated, the novel stands as one of the most powerful testaments to the human drive for dignity and self-determination in the face of oppression.