In this exciting historical adventure, a famished, exhausted, and terrified boy drops from the tree in which he has hidden just as Constantine, last Emperor of the Romans, is about to receive his crown. Thus Piers Barber, shipwrecked young seaman from Bristol, England, now renamed Vrethiki ("lucky find"), becomes an unwilling talisman to the Emperor, for it has been prophesied that if even one person who is at his side when he takes the crown stays with him always, the City will not perish. Jill Paton Walsh brings a meticulous eye for detail and storyteller's skill to this tale of the fall of Constantinople and the siege that marked the end of the Byzantine Empire. Fractured by bitter rivalries and corruption, the City nevertheless inspired its defenders to extraordinary feats. Through the darkening months, Vrethiki finds renewed faith, inspired too to see the City as a vision worth dying for and the Emperor as his own true lord.

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From the supplier: Distance is a key element in Carole Maso's "The American Woman in the Chinese Hat." Distance is played out in the central character, Catherine, leaving her lover to go to France. Distance is also depicted as Catherine's voice changes from first person to third-person immediately after learning of her lover's decision to break up.

Citation Details
Title: Between the winding sheets: 'The American Woman in the Chinese Hat.'
Author: Jeffrey DeShell
Publication: The Review of Contemporary Fiction (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 1997
Publisher: Review of Contemporary Fiction
Volume: v17 Issue: n3 Page: p194(12)

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Book One of a series in the rites-of-passage episode in the life of a young girl struggling to reconcile her young needs with her father's strict values.