Swimming To Ithaca (Paperback, Digital original)

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 conspirators, lovers and spies. Dee's story, an intimate history of violence and tenderness for which Thomas finds himself quite unprepared, gathers momentum, against, in the background, the ominous roar of approaching disaster. A vivid evocation of the past and a deft examination of the dangerous power of memory, SWIMMING TO ITHACA sets fragile human relationships against the unstoppable force of history and sheds new light on both.

General

Imprint:	Abacus
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	June 2007
Authors:	Simon Mawer
Dimensions:	198 x 126 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	343
Edition:	Digital original
ISBN-13:	978-0-349-11923-6
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction Promotions
LSN:	0-349-11923-6
Barcode:	9780349119236

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