Σin the first half of the 16th century, when Suleiman the Magnificent was consolidating his empire, the only fortress-city of small and insignificant Skiathos was built on a sea-surprised rock, where the inhabitants had taken refuge for fear of pirates.
For centuries the island was under the "protection" of the Venetians, from whom, however, the locals suffered. Then the infamous corsair Barbarossa, on behalf of the Sultan, undertook to "clear the White Sea" of the scattered Venetian possessions. Its first stop, in 1538, the Castle of Skiathos...
The novel highlights, alongside the role of the powerful of the dark age, the feeling of self-preservation of the enslaved Greeks and their insatiable thirst to breathe the aroma of freedom.
Through the battles, the loves, the adventures, the intrigues, the intrigues, the superstitions and the passions of the heroes and with an extremely direct writing, the author weaves a fascinating web at the limits of the truth and captures in relief the blood-stained face of the world, the period after the Fall, in a unique work that is literally breathlessly read, from beginning to end.
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