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|title=The Descent of the Lyre

|sort=Descent of the Lyre, The

|publisher=Roman Books

|date=August 2012

|website=http://willbuckingham.com

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|summary=A novel that's exciting, touching and historically fascinating for all, mixed with greater depths for those who want to delve further. Ivan Gelski may be fictional but he's someone you won't forget in a hurry.

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Seventeen year old Ivan Gelski, the much loved son of Bulgarian peasant parents, has his bride to be and future snatched from him brutally just before his wedding. Full of rage and vengeance, he leaves his close knit village to join the haiduti, a savage band of outlaws who kill mercilessly in order to acquire food and survival. Years later, on one of these killing sprees, Ivan encounters Solomon Kuretic, a Viennese Jew and guitar virtuoso on his way to play for the Sultan in Constantinople. Solomon must play for his life but, by doing so, he sends Ivan on a journey of his own spreading across Europe and into saintly veneration.