Fall of Troy

Peter Ackroyd

RRP: £16.99

Publisher: CHATTO & WINDUS

Publication Date : 07/09/2006

Hardback

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Guardian Bookshop Notes:

Powerfully imagined historical novel, set during the 19th century at the time that the Bronze Age site of Troy was being excavated. Peter Ackroyd returns to one of his favourite themes: fakes, forgeries and plagiarism.

Publisher's description:

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, and identifying salient points.

ISBN: 9780701179113