Why Angels Fall
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Picador
Published: June 8, 2001
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 480
ISBN-13: 9780330487887
Subjects: Comparative religion; European history (ie other than Britain & Ireland); Orthodox Churches; Travel writing; Eastern Europe; Europe; History: World
First sentence: Only an angel could have rejoiced at my first glimpse of the Holy Mountain through a fug of cigarette smoke and a rain-streaked porthole on a squally April morning.