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Swimming to Ithaca
Simon Mawer
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Description for Swimming to Ithaca
Paperback. *An exciting and atmospheric novel that will continue to expand the audience for Simon Mawer Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 23. Weight in Grams: 240.
On her deathbed, Dee Denham, at one time the toast of colonial Cyprus, tells her son Thomas that her illness is a punishment. Compelled by grief and a confused childhood memory of betrayal, Thomas finds himself searching for the meaning of her last words. He searches through faded photographs and love letters, seeks out survivors and examines his own imperfect recollections. A vanished world comes to life: the restless, seductive island of Cyprus at the end of Empire, a place of oleander and carob trees, cocktails at the Harbour Club and adultery in shuttered bedrooms, peopled by ghostly admirers and ... Read more
On her deathbed, Dee Denham, at one time the toast of colonial Cyprus, tells her son Thomas that her illness is a punishment. Compelled by grief and a confused childhood memory of betrayal, Thomas finds himself searching for the meaning of her last words. He searches through faded photographs and love letters, seeks out survivors and examines his own imperfect recollections. A vanished world comes to life: the restless, seductive island of Cyprus at the end of Empire, a place of oleander and carob trees, cocktails at the Harbour Club and adultery in shuttered bedrooms, peopled by ghostly admirers and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780349119236
SKU
V9780349119236
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Ref
99-50
About Simon Mawer
Simon Mawer was born in 1948 in England, and spent his childhood there, in Cyprus and in Malta. He now lives with his wife and two children in Italy, and teaches at the English School in Rome.
Reviews for Swimming to Ithaca
The Cypriot narrative blooms with life, a certain intrigue and some sharply drawn characters INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY Conjures up a 1950s world of carob trees, cocktails and rebellion THE TIMES A gripping read SUNDAY TIMES