{"product_id":"the-towers-of-trebizond-9780374533632","title":"The Towers of Trebizond","description":"\u003cp\u003eHailed as \"an utter delight, the most brilliant witty and charming book I have read since I can't remember when\" by \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e when it was originally published in 1956, Rose Macaulay's \u003ci\u003eThe Towers of Trebizond\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDame Rose Macaulay\u003c\/b\u003e, one of the most popular writers and personalities in England from the 1920s until her death in 1958, was a friend to the likes of E. M. Forster and Virginia Woolf. She was the author of more than thirty-five books; \u003ci\u003eTowers of Trebizond\u003c\/i\u003e is her masterpiece.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50523557167378,"sku":"9780374533632","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_30f7bcdf-6b3d-4761-a1e7-e487cfc2c637.jpg?v=1731152031","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-towers-of-trebizond-9780374533632","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}