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 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 ...
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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 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 pasta past that he has chosen to hide from her. But she, too, is very good at the art of archaeology...
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Peter Ackroyd in top form. Taking as his starting point what is known of the career of Schliemann, the controversial excavator of "Troy," the novelist explores a character of who could live only in a certain time and place, the turn of the last century, seen through the eyes of his remarkable Greek wife. Not an intellectual exercise, but instead a headlong novel that surprises and satisfies from beginning to end.
