Peter Ackroyd — The Fall of Troy, 2007 год


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The Fall of Troy - Peter Ackroyd

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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 tieing canvas sacking to her legs so that she can kneel on the hard ground in the trench, removing the earth methodically, identifying salient points, lifting out amphorae and bronze vessels without damaging them. ‘Archaeology is not a science’, Obermann says. ‘It is an art’.
Obermann is very good at the art of archaeology — perhaps too good at it.
The amosphere 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 past — a past that he has chosen to hide from her.
But she, too, is very good at the art of archaeology …

ISBN: 9780099492757
мягкая обложка, 224 стр.
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