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Cypria : A Journey to the Heart of the Mediterranean — A Gripping New History of Cyprus

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Author: Christofi, Alex

Cyprus

Published on 9 May 2024 by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (Bloomsbury Continuum) in the United Kingdom.

Hardback | 352 pages, 8 pages of colour photographs.
164 x 243 x 34 | 594g

‘A brilliant exploration of Cyprus’s long history of cultural resilience. Superbly composed.’ — Guardian’Poetic…Compelling’ — New StatesmanOne of National Geographic’s Summer Reads 2024Think of a place where you can stand at the intersection of Christian and Arab cultures, at the crossroads of the British, Ottoman, Byzantine, Roman and Egyptian empires; a place marked by the struggle between fascism and communism and where the capital city is divided in half as a result of bloody conflict; where the ancient olive trees of Homer’s time exist alongside the undersea cables which link up the world’s internet.

In Cypria, named after a lost Cypriot epic which was the prequel to The Odyssey, British Cypriot writer Alex Christofi writes a deeply personal, lyrical history of the island of Cyprus, from the era of goddesses and mythical beasts to the present day.

This sprawling, evocative and poetic book begins with the legend of the cyclops and the storytelling at the heart of the Mediterranean culture. Christofi travels to salt lakes, crusader castles, mosques and the eerie town deserted at the start of the 1974 war. He retells the particularly bloody history of Cyprus during the twentieth century and considers his own identity as traveler and returner, as Odysseus was.

Written in sensitive, witty and beautifully rendered prose, with a novelist’s flair and eye for detail, Cypria combines the political, cultural and geographical history of Cyprus with reflections on time, place and belonging.

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Weight 0.594 kg
Dimensions 16.4 × 24.3 × 3.4 cm

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