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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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About the Author
Patrick Leigh Fermor is of English and Irish descent. After his stormy schooldays, followed by his walk across Europe to Constantinople, he lived and travelled in the Balkans and the Greek archipelago acquiring a deep interest in languages and remote places. He joined the Irish Guards, became a liaison officer in Albania, fought in Greece and Crete where, during the German occupation, he returned three times (once by parachute). Disguised as a shepherd he lived for over two years in the mountains, organising the resistance, and led the party that captured and evacuated the German Commander, General Kreipe. He was awarded the DSO and OBE, was made Honorary Citizen of Heraklion, and later of Kardamyli and Gytheion.
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John Murray is doing the decent thing and reissuing all of Leigh Fermor's main books ... But what else would you expect from a publisher whose commitment to geography is such that for more than two centuries it has widened our understanding of the world? * Geographical Magazine * brings alive the glamour and the passions of the planters in their heyday * Geographical Magazine * 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 * Beautiful is the adjective which comes uppermost ... [Patrick Leigh Fermor] is a writer with outstanding descriptive powers * John Betjeman, Daily Telegraph * An exuberant and highly-developed traveller's tale, garlanded with deeply enjoyed and lovingly precise detail * Sunday Times * This little masterpiece is a perfect tour de force * Simon Winchester * 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 * Patrick Leigh Fermor evokes the imaginary past with unremitting devotion ... enchantingly pretty * Observer * A stylish and accomplished piece of sustained good writing ... with a strange beauty * Glasgow Herald * A brilliant set piece ... Patrick Leigh Fermor has a fine visual imagination * New Statesman * Excellent ... A graceful picture of life on an unusual and exotic island that has both colour and charm * Times Literary Supplement *
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- PublisherOxford University Press
- Publication date1985
- ISBN 10 0192818775
- ISBN 13 9780192818775
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages160
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