A literary sensation in Hungary, Gyorgy Spiro's Captivity is set in the tumultuous first century A.D., between the year of Christ's death and the outbreak of the Jewish War. It follows the adventures of the feeble-bodied, bookish Uri, a young Roman Jew. Frustrated with his hapless son, Uri's father sends the young man to the Holy Land to regain the family's prestige. In Jerusalem, Uri is imprisoned by Herod and meets two thieves and (perhaps) Jesus before their crucifixion. Later he has an awakening in cosmopolitan Alexandria, and then returns home to an unexpected inheritance.
- ISBN10 1632061414
- ISBN13 9781632061416
- Publish Date 24 November 2016 (first published 17 December 2015)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Regan Arts
- Imprint Restless Books
- Format Paperback
- Pages 896
- Language English