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Brandy Sour

By Constantia Soteriou

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Brandy Sour

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The Winner of the 2023 Cypriot National Book Prize When it was built in the 1950s, nothing symbolised Cyprus entering the modern world like the Ledra Palace Hotel. In Constantia Soteriou's jewel of a novella, the ambitions and shortcomings of the island's turbulent twentieth century are played out by its occupants. Among them we meet the king in exile who needs to drown his sorrows with a drink disguised to look like tea; the porter who, among the English roses of the hotel''s gardens, secretly plants a rose from his village to make his rosebud infusions; the UN officer who drinks lemonade to deal with the heat and the lies; and the cleaning lady who always carries her holy water with her. They are reluctant actors in history, evocatively captured in this moving, personal, and highly original portrait of civil strife and division. __ "Flavours bounce off the page and straight into the mouth" THE SUNDAY TIMES "This is, quite simply, one of the most powerful books ever to come out of our island" CYPRUS MAIL
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
150
Release Date:
2024-06-04
Publication Date:
2024-06-04
Publisher:
Foundry Editions
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1738446301
ISBN13:
9781738446308
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
126 g
Height:
126 cm
Width:
193 cm
Thickness:
15 cm
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