The Towers of Trebizond

Rose Macaulay

• Publisher: Rare Treasure Editions
• eBook ISBN:
  9781773230719
• Year: 2025

Hailed as "an utter delight, the most brilliant witty and charming book I have read since I can't remember when" by  The New York Times  when it was originally published in 1956, Rose Macaulay's  ''The Towers of Trebizond'' tells the gleefully absurd story of Aunt Dot, Father Chantry-Pigg, Aunt Dot's deranged camel, and our narrator, Laurie, who are traveling from Istanbul to legendary Trebizond on a convoluted mission. Along the way they will encounter spies, a Greek sorcerer, a precocious ape, and Billy Graham with a busload of evangelists. Part travelogue, part comedy, it is also a meditation on love, faith, doubt, and the difficulties, moral and intellectual, of being a Christian in the modern world.

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