
Amidst the sand
Summary
I’m but a tree, hence I cannot help you. My own roots are stuck in the belly of Mother Earth, hence I cannot reach you. No eyes adorn my bark, hence I cannot cry for you.In the year 1500, a merchant’s daughter is assaulted. Traumatised but living, she ponders the morale of men under my branches.Writ......more
CHAPTERS (42)
- 1 Of brutalities and dissen
- 2 The vendor who aspired to be king
- 3 The mother with cold eyes
- 4 A farewell
- 5 The poe
- 6 Of romance and parlours
- 7 The altar
- 8 The prestige of war
- 9 Those distant days - 1211
- 10 Crying aloud - 1211
- 11 Regardless of all that brought terror - 1211
- 12 The band of soldiers
- 13 The child by the merchant stand
- 14 On the topic of raw fish - 1211
- 15 Young indulgence - 1211
- 16 As I gathered my valour - 1213
- 17 Of those laying upon the grass - 1213
- 18 Beautiful fools - 1213
- 19 An ineffectual struggle - 1215
- 20 We were but children - 1215
- 21 The emperor’s crown - 1220
- 22 The young man before me - 1220
- 23 Those distant nights- 1220
- 24 Palermo - 1220
- 25 When sleep fails us - 1220
- 26 A trinket between novelties
- 27 On the subject of art and history
- 28 The artis
- 29 A sibling’s cavilling
- 30 One day in Autumn - 1227
- 31 A game by the fire - 1227
- 32 A conspiracy of paper - 1227
- 33 Passing of a friend - 1227
- 34 On the stone floor - 1227
- 35 The king of Germany - 1227
- 36 Treason and enmity - 1228
- 37 Of shattered glass and wine stains - 1228
- 38 The accursed - 1228
- 39 The onset of the crusade - 1228
- 40 Cypruss - 1228
- 41 Under the doum palms - 1228
- 42 The wild dance of fools - 1228
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