The Siege of Isfahan (Paperback)

A luminous sequel to The Abyssinian, a headlong adventure set in the treacherous splendor of the Eastern empires.

Twenty years have passed since Jean-Baptiste Poncet's daring mission to the remote and exotic court of the King of Abyssinia. We find him now in Isfahan, capital of Persia, practicing medicine in the court of the Shah. In order to rescue his old friend Juremi, imprisoned in the Urals, Poncet travels in disguise to Russia, where he engages in a diplomatic duel of wits with Peter the Great. The friends, reunited, are captured by nomads and sold as slaves in Afghanistan. This is the beginning of Poncet's circuitous return to Isfahan, where his wife and daughter are trapped by a besieging army of the Afghan king, Mahmud.

"Jean-Christophe Rufin's engaging sequel...is a solid example of the adventure genre."—Christian Science Monitor

General

Imprint:	W W Norton & Co Inc
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	September 2013
First published:	August 2002
Authors:	Jean-Christophe Rufin
Translators:	Willard Wood
Dimensions:	211 x 142 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	382
ISBN-13:	978-0-393-32339-9
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction Promotions
LSN:	0-393-32339-0
Barcode:	9780393323399

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