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Rural Cyprus, 1925. Despo is recently married, heavily pregnant and
deeply afraid. The twelve days of Christmas are beginning - the
time when, according to local folklore, creatures known as
kalikantzari come up from Hell to wreak havoc. Meanwhile, her
husband Loukas has troubles of his own. Struggling with dreams and
desires he doesn't understand, he finds himself irresistibly drawn
to an Englishman, a newcomer to the island. In a village wreathed
in superstition, Despo and Loukas must protect themselves and their
unborn child from ominous forces at play.
Twenty-two-year-old Oscar is a lost cause. He roams central London,
looking for love and distraction. But this isn't quite Bright
Lights, Big City: Oscar is gay but feels disconnected from London's
gay scene. He is naive and rootless, an emotionally stunted young
man who lives in upscale Kensington with his foster mother,
novelist Charlotte Fontaine. But all of this changes when he meets
Tim, Charlotte's thirty-something literary agent with whom Oscar
becomes hopelessly infatuated. While he struggles to understand
Tim's politics and his rejection of religion, Oscar's developing
friendship with Tim affects a profound change in the young man,
making him want to understand the world and his place in it.
DISBANDED KINGDOM is a brilliantly written 21st Century
coming-of-age story, set against the emotive backdrop of the United
Kingdom's breakaway from the European Union and its threatened
rupture with Scotland.
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