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Simon Raven
The novelist Fielding Gray is commissioned by the BBC in 1962 to present an unvarnished account of Cyprus’s path to independence in the broadcast series "Today in History." Once stationed there as a professional soldier, Gray was scarred for life by a bombing that abruptly ended his officer career. Hardly had he begun his research when mysterious accidents occur that seem intended to derail his mission. And just before he can interview a legendary guerrilla leader in Athens, an encounter with a young man throws him off course and in other ways drags him back into the past—into the culpable entanglements of a fateful love affair from his youth. Wounded by life, Gray throws himself among the ruins of antiquity into an unexpected happiness in which, for a short time, yesterday yields to a hopeful today and the roles of victim and perpetrator have not yet been decided. In the sixth volume of his novel series "Alms for Forgetting," Simon Raven follows the story of a seeker of fortune amid covered-up crimes, unscrupulous agents, and cultural-political power interests—and shows once again that one cannot take the laughter of the Furies lightly, not even in antiquity.
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