The fall of Troy, a novel, Peter Ackroyd
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The fall of Troy, a novel, Peter Ackroyd
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eng
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Literary form
fiction
Main title
The fall of Troy
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Peter Ackroyd
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Large print books
Sub title
a novel
Summary
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 tying canvas sacking to her legs so that she can kneel in the trench, removing the earth methodically, lifting out amphorae and bronze vessels without damaging them. 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 past - a past that he has chosen to hide from her
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