By Harry Mark Petrakis
Featuring the various characters who seemed within the past e-book, “The Shepherds of Shadows” depicts the horrors of struggle in conflict scenes that echo the visceral starkness of clash present in Homer's “Iliad.” the unconventional additionally incorporates a vibrant portrayal of Lord Byron, who, threw his poetry supported the reason for Greece’s struggle for independence, inspiring the realm to supply relief and volunteers for the fight. Byron himself traveled to Greece to hitch the battle for liberation.
Woven throughout the tapestry of conflict are tales of the affection of a tender guerrilla fighter for a Greek woman and her baby, born of a brutal rape, in addition to the affection of the scribe, Xanthos, for a village lady widowed by way of the conflict. There are lyrical descriptions of a village marriage ceremony and of the rituals of the village funeral. And regularly there's the paranormal, overpowering presence of the Greek panorama and its majestic previous mixing truth and fantasy, as Petrakis creates a contemporary epic in keeping with some of the most savage and least recognized conflicts in ecu history.
"The Shepherds of Shadows" thrills with its storytelling, weaving larger-than-life individuals with greater-than-imagination occurrences. . . . This old novel provides a sprawling landscape of a mythical Greek era." — Vassilis Lambropoulos, writer of “The Tragic inspiration”
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