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Cypria - A Journey to the Heart of the Mediterranean (Hardcover)
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Cypria - A Journey to the Heart of the Mediterranean (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R490
Discovery Miles 4 900
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An evocative and lyrical history of Cyprus and the Mediterranean.
Think of a place where can you stand at the intersection of
Christian and Arab cultures, at the crossroads of the British,
Ottoman, Byzantine, Roman and Egyptian empires; a place marked by
the struggle between fascism and communism and where the capital
city is divided in half as a result of bloody internal conflict;
where the ancient olive trees of Homer's time exist alongside the
undersea cables which provide the world's internet. In Cypria,
named after a lost Cypriot epic which was the prequel to The
Odyssey, British Cypriot writer Alex Christofi writes a deeply
personal, lyrical and historical portrait and history of the island
of Cyprus, from ancient times to the present day. This sprawling,
evocative and poetic book begins with the legend of the cyclops -
now thought to have come from the skeletons of elephants fossilized
in the stone - and the tales and storytelling at the heart of the
Mediterranean culture. Christofi travels to salt lakes, mosques and
the eerie towns deserted at the start of the 1974 war. He retells
the particularly bloody history of Cyprus during the twentieth
century and consider his own identity as traveler and returner, as
Odysseus was. Written in the same sensitive, witty and beautifully
rendered prose as his last book Dostoevsky in Love, with a
novelist's flair and eye for detail, Cypria combines the political,
cultural and geographical history of Cyprus with reflections on
time, place and belonging.
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