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Sartorius, Joachim

 
9781909961784: My Cyprus: A Memoir (Armchair Traveller)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1909961787 ISBN 13: 9781909961784
Verlag: Haus Publishing, 2021

Inhaltsangabe

The history of the island of Cyprus is in many ways a world history. Its strategic position means it has been coveted by one foreign power after another. All came here: the Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, crusaders, Venetians, Genoese, Ottomans, British, and they all left their mark. Aside from the Roman and early-Byzantine ruins of Salamis, the most impressive monuments date from the Frankish and Venetian times: the Abbey of Bellapais, the fortified harbour of Kyrenia, the magnificent cathedrals of Nicosia and Famagusta, the setting for Shakespeare's Othello. Sartorius lived in Cyprus for three years. In The Geckos of Bellapais he returns to the cultures and legends, to the colours and the light of the Levant, sifting the sediments of the island's history, including its division after the Turkish invasion of 1974 and the difficulties that followed. Yet this is not the work of a historian or a political scientist, but of a poet, who with the help of friends, both Greek and Turkish Cypriots, tries to understand this unique place.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Joachim Sartorius is a writer, translator, and former diplomat. In 1996 he was made secretary-general of the Goethe Institut, and he was the artistic director of the Berlin Festival from 2001 to 2011. Stephen Brown is a playwright, translator, and cultural critic. His translations from German include Joachim Sartorius&;s The Princes&; Islands and Birgit Haustedt&;s Rilke&;s Venice.

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Verlag
Haus Publishing
Erscheinungsdatum
2021
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1909961787
ISBN 13 
9781909961784
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Anzahl der Seiten
208
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