The Fall of Troy

Peter Ackroyd

ISBN 10: 079275042X / ISBN 13: 9780792750420

Published by BBC Audiobooks, 2007

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Fall of Troy
• Publisher: BBC Audiobooks
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 079275042X
• ISBN 13: 9780792750420
• Binding: AUDIO CD
• Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

Sophia Chrysanthis is only sixteen 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 helping to excavate the amphorae and bronze vessels at the battle site of Troy without damaging them. Obermann is very good at the art of archaeology-perhaps too good at it. The atmosphere 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.

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)