"... You saw with your own eyes that I did not come as a conqueror but as a liberator, because I will free the Greek people of Constantinople from the thousand-year slavery of the emperors and nobles. You are to blame for the sufferings of your city, for not casting off the yoke and not calling me to liberate you. But soon the sufferings will end..."
"John Angelos" is the diary notes of a mysterious stranger during the siege and fall of Constantinople by the Turks. Through its pages, a passionate love story is born and blossoms while the destruction of the world takes place, a destruction that the events of our own time make extremely relevant. "John Angelos" is considered the best novel of a great prose writer and one of the brightest works of world literature in its genre.