Книга: Swimming To Ithaca (Mawer Simon); Abacus, 2014

An exciting and atmospheric novel which will continue to expand the audience for Simon Mawer

As Dee Denham, once a beautiful and beloved wife, the toast of colonial Cyprus, lies dying, her former life seems unimaginably distant. And then out of the blue Dee speaks to her son Thomas, sitting at her bedside: she tells him that her illness is a punishment. Compelled by a grief he cannot articulate and a confused childhood memory of betrayal, as Thomas begins the process of dismantling his mother's life he finds himself searching for the meaning of her last words. Embarked on a dangerous liaison of his own, he searches through faded photographs and love letters, seeks out survivors and examines his own imperfect remembrance, and suddenly a whole 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. With gathering momentum Dee's story unfolds, an intimate history of violence and tenderness for which Thomas finds himself quite unprepared.

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Параметр	Значение
ISBN	9780349119236
Автор(ы)	Mawer Simon
Вес	0.24
Возрастное ограничение	16+
Год издания	2014
Жанр	проза на иностранном языке
Издатель	Abacus
Издательство	Abacus
Кол-во страниц	344
Количество книг	1
Количество страниц	344
Обложка	мягкая обложка
Тип обложки	мягкая