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Originally published in 1953, this novel was immediately hailed as a rare sweep of color across the drab post-war years. Fermor's writing about this tropical island is as beautiful and haunting as the sound of the violins rising from the water, which is all that remains of the island and its inhabitants.
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Excellent ... A graceful picture of life on an unusual and exotic island that has both colour and charm (Times Literary Supplement)
A brilliant set piece ... Patrick Leigh Fermor has a fine visual imagination (New Statesman)
A stylish and accomplished piece of sustained good writing ... with a strange beauty (Glasgow Herald)
Patrick Leigh Fermor evokes the imaginary past with unremitting devotion ... enchantingly pretty (Observer)
Elegant and vividly exotic ... The story of the island and the echoing romance of its last Mardi Gras is done with brilliant aesthetic feeling and with a charming philosophic melancholy (The Times)
This little masterpiece is a perfect tour de force (Simon Winchester)
An exuberant and highly-developed traveller's tale, garlanded with deeply enjoyed and lovingly precise detail (Sunday Times)
Beautiful is the adjective which comes uppermost ... [Patrick Leigh Fermor] is a writer with outstanding descriptive powers (John Betjeman, Daily Telegraph)
Bringing the landscape alive as no other writer can, he uses his profound and eclectic understanding of cultures and peoples ... to paint vivid pictures - nobody has illuminated the geography of Europe better (Geographical Magazine)
brings alive the glamour and the passions of the planters in their heyday (Geographical Magazine)
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A brilliant set piece ... Patrick Leigh Fermor has a fine visual imagination (New Statesman)
A stylish and accomplished piece of sustained good writing ... with a strange beauty (Glasgow Herald)
Patrick Leigh Fermor evokes the imaginary past with unremitting devotion ... enchantingly pretty (Observer)
Elegant and vividly exotic ... The story of the island and the echoing romance of its last Mardi Gras is done with brilliant aesthetic feeling and with a charming philosophic melancholy (The Times)
This little masterpiece is a perfect tour de force (Simon Winchester)
An exuberant and highly-developed traveller's tale, garlanded with deeply enjoyed and lovingly precise detail (Sunday Times)
Beautiful is the adjective which comes uppermost ... [Patrick Leigh Fermor] is a writer with outstanding descriptive powers (John Betjeman, Daily Telegraph)
Bringing the landscape alive as no other writer can, he uses his profound and eclectic understanding of cultures and peoples ... to paint vivid pictures - nobody has illuminated the geography of Europe better (Geographical Magazine)
brings alive the glamour and the passions of the planters in their heyday (Geographical Magazine)
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- PublisherOxford Paperbacks
- Publication date1985
- ISBN 10 0192818775
- ISBN 13 9780192818775
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages148
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