Sinai Tapestry
by Edward Whittemore
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Pub Date Jul 23 2013 | Archive Date Apr 10 2014
Open Road Integrated Media | Open Road Media
Description
In 1840, Plantagenet Strongbow, the twenty-ninth Duke of Dorset, seven-feet-seven-inches tall and the greatest swordsman and botanist of Victorian England, walks away from the family estate and disappears into the Sinai Desert carrying only a large magnifying glass and a portable sundial. He emerges forty years later as an Arab holy man and anthropologist, now the author of a massive study of Levantine sex—and the secret owner of the Ottoman Empire.
Meanwhile, Skanderbeg Wallenstein has discovered the original Bible, lost on a dusty bookshelf in the monastery library. To his amazement, it defies every truth held by the three major religions. Nearly a century later, Haj Harun, an antiquities dealer who has acted as guardian of the Holy City for three thousand years, uncovers the hidden Bible.
Sinai Tapestry is the first volume of the Jerusalem Quartet, which continues with Jerusalem Poker, Nile Shadows, and Jericho Mosaic.
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Advance Praise
“One of America’s best writers . . . an author of seismic talents . . . sets in motion an epic of profound invention, one that promises to be as fascinating and self-contained as Lord of the Rings.” —Harpers Bazaar
“An epic hashish dream . . . cosmic . . . fabulous . . . droll and moving.” —The New York Times Book Review
“One
of the best-kept secrets in American literature, the novels of the
mysterious Edward Whittemore are like bowls of hashish pudding: rich,
dark, tasty, amusing, intoxicating, revelatory, a little bit outlandish,
and a little bit unsafe.” —Tom Robbins, author of Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
Marketing Plan
About the Author: Edward Whittemore (1933–1995) graduated from Yale University in 1955 and went on to serve as a Marine officer in Japan and spend ten years as a CIA operative in the Far East, Europe, and the Middle East. In addition to writing fiction, he managed a newspaper in Greece, was employed by a shoe company in Italy, and worked in New York City’s narcotics control office during the administration of Mayor John V. Lindsay. He wrote the Jerusalem Quartet while dividing his time between New York and Jerusalem.
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781480433892 |
| PRICE | $9.99 (USD) |
