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The Lives of Others (Paperback)
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The Lives of Others (Paperback)
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You Save R48 (10%)
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"For the past 10 years, since February 2009, I've been writing the
Sunday profiles for the Cyprus Mail newspaper..." Theo Panayides
tells the stories of 60 very different people, taken from the many
hundreds he's interviewed over the years. All human life is here -
from a humble street sweeper to a former President, from a pig
farmer to a millionaire businessman, from a lifelong drifter to a
pastry chef turned Iraqi refugee, from an LGBTI activist to a
mystic who claims to have spoken to Jesus. World-champion freediver
William Trubridge is here. Bestselling British novelist Victoria
Hislop is here too. Some lives have been successful, others tragic.
One man lost his family in the Rwandan genocide, another in the
Turkish invasion of Cyprus. Some of the stories are emotional; many
are feelgood. Most relate in some way to Cyprus, the Mediterranean
island where Panayides is based. With a smart, highly readable
style and a deep compassion, he reveals the personalities of his
very diverse subjects - though also finds himself returning often
to the same questions of Time passing and life turning out
unexpectedly, finding many of the same hopes and fears in these
very different lives. Are they - and we - really so different,
after all?
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