The SacreD Icon

By Dimitra Papanastasopoulou

1522. Inside the impregnable Castle of Rhodes, under the threat of the Turkish hordes, life costs nothing. People, knights and commoners, begin their day without knowing if they will live to see the night; still, they keep on living and falling in love despite the brutality unleashed on them like a hurricane. While famine, betrayal and death hold sway, leading to the Christians' defeat, a monk tries to preserve a precious icon of the Holy Virgin, defying the danger that closes in on him.Four centuries later. Now the inhabitants of the beautiful island go through a different ordeal, that of Fascism. It's a steep uphill road, but they stand their ground, although they live in bleak insecurity. The stranglehold is tightening like a musical rondo that, although it's the same, its intensity grows until it reaches a crescendo. The icon plays its own role.A novel full of emotion, twists and truths. Everyday life mingles with resistance and espionage and becomes unbearable and stifling, with betrayal reigning supreme in both the first and second parts, against a backdrop of death, where hope for life fades away but is not lost, through to the relentless but redeeming end.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B08NF1RLNB
• ISBN13: 9798674808343
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 346 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"