Leírás:

A literary sensation in Hungary, György Spiró's CAPTIVITY is both a highly sophisticated historical novel and a gripping page-turner. Set in the tumultuous first century A.D., between the year of Christ's death and the outbreak of the Jewish War,
CAPTIVITY recounts 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, in cosmopolitan
Alexandria, he undergoes a scholarly and sexual awakening - but must also escape a pogrom. Returning to Rome at last, he finds an entirely unexpected inheritance.