Cypria
A Journey to the Heart of the Mediterranean
(Sprache: Englisch)
An evocative and lyrical history of Cyprus and the Mediterranean. Think of a place where can you stand at the intersection of Christian and Arab cultures, at the crossroads of the British, Ottoman, Byzantine, Roman and Egyptian empires; a place...
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An evocative and lyrical history of Cyprus and the Mediterranean. Think of a place where can you 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 internal conflict; where the ancient olive trees of Homer's time exist alongside the undersea cables which provide 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 and historical portrait and history of the island of Cyprus, from ancient times 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, mosques and the eerie towns 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 the same sensitive, witty and beautifully rendered prose as his last book Dostoevsky in Love, 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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Cypria “
Timeline Introduction: The City and the City 1. Spume: The birth of the Great Goddess 2. Olive Culture: How trade began 3. The Lost Kingdom of Alashiya: Diving into the Bronze Age 4. Cypria: Survivors of Mycenaean Greece 5. The Purple Ones: Phoenicians and their philosophy 6. Apostle: The Cypriots who spread Christianity 7. Monks and Cats: St Helena's pilgrimage 8. Oasis: The Arab conquest, the Empire of Cyprus and the Third Crusade at sea 9. The Fairytale Castle: The House of Lusignan 10. Lala Mustafa Pasha: The siege of Famagusta and the formation of the Holy LeagueBattle of Lepanto 11. Linen Blend: The Turkish influence 12. Cyprus, New York: How history was weaponised as 'civilisation' 13. Olympians: Religious and secular authority in Britain's Christian colonyBritain's Christian colony 14. The Philhellene: The burning down of Government House 15. Kafeneon: The left and right wing schism 16. Bitter Lemons: The struggle for enosis 17. The Battle of the Knife: The militarisation of Cyprus 18. The Ledra Palace Hotel: The war on neighbours 19. Ghosts: The tragedies of 1974 20. Ayia Napa, Ayia Napa, Ayia Napa: The holiday from the self 21. Drilling for Gods: Moscow on the Med Epilogue: The fort, and the dangers of digging up the past Notes Bibliography Acknowledgements
Autoren-Porträt von Alex Christofi
Alex Christofi is Editorial Director at Transworld Publishers and author of four books published in 12 languages, including the novels Let Us Be True and Glass, winner of the Betty Trask Prize for fiction. He has written for numerous publications including the Guardian, London Magazine, White Review and the Brixton Review of Books, and contributed an essay to the anthology What Doesn't Kill You: Fifteen Stories of Survival. Dostoevsky in Love, his first work of non-fiction, was shortlisted for the Biographers' Club Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize and named as a Literary Non-fiction Book of the Year by the Times and Sunday Times.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Alex Christofi
- 2024, 352 Seiten, 8 farbige Abbildungen, Masse: 15,2 x 23,2 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Bloomsbury Trade
- ISBN-10: 1399401890
- ISBN-13: 9781399401890
- Erscheinungsdatum: 09.05.2024
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
In this beautifully-written book, Alex Christofi tells of the contradictions that make Cyprus so fascinating, an island as ageless as its olive trees and contestations over its historical memory. Marc David Baer, author of The Ottomans
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