The Fall Of Troy - Softcover
'I cannot wait to bring you to the plain of Troy. To show you the place where Hector and Achilles fought. To show you the palace of Priam. And the walls where the Trojan women watched their warriors in battle with the invader. It will stir your blood, Sophia.'
Sophia Chrysanthis is only 16 when the German archaeologist Herr Obermann comes wooing: he wants a Greek bride who knows her Homer. Sophia passes his test, and soon she is tieing canvas sacking to her legs so that she can kneel on the hard ground in the trench, removing the earth methodically, identifying salient points, lifting out amphorae and bronze vessels without damaging them. 'Archaeology is not a science,' Obermann says. 'It is an art.'
Obermann is very good at the art of archaeology - perhaps too good at it.
The amosphere at Troy is tense and mysterious. Sophia finds herself increasingly baffled by the past ... not only the remote past that Obermann is so keen to share with her in the form of his beloved epics of the Trojan wars, but also his own, recent past - a past that he has chosen to hide from her.
But she, too, is very good at the art of archaeology ...
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Review:
Provoking, unsettling, ingenious - and a delight to read (Guardian)
The Fall of Troy skilfully interweaves classical and 19th century stories, employing motifs from both Homer and Charlotte Bronte. This is Ackroyd's most exuberant novel for years (Michael Arditti Daily Mail)
Ackroyd imports a Mrs Rochester theme to Turkey, and the denouement has the atmosphere of a thriller, with innocents running for their lives (David Horspool Sunday Times)
Lurid and generally entertaining drama (Independent on Sunday)
The Fall of Troy is above all a love story, and like the best love stories it deals in obsession, deception, madness and death (Elizabeth Speller Independent)
From the Publisher:
The Fall of Troy skilfully interweaves classical and 19th century stories, employing motifs from both Homer and Charlotte Bronte. This is Ackroyd's most exuberant novel for years (Michael Arditti Daily Mail)
Ackroyd imports a Mrs Rochester theme to Turkey, and the denouement has the atmosphere of a thriller, with innocents running for their lives (David Horspool Sunday Times)
Lurid and generally entertaining drama (Independent on Sunday)
The Fall of Troy is above all a love story, and like the best love stories it deals in obsession, deception, madness and death (Elizabeth Speller Independent)
Brilliant historical novel, set during the 19th century at the time that the Bronze Age site of Troy was being excavated. Peter Ackroyd returns to one of his favourite themes: fakes, forgeries and plagiarism.
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- PublisherISIS Large Print Books
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 0753178052
- ISBN 13 9780753178058
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages288
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