Pascali's Island - Unsworth, Barry
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A masterful tale by the author of "Sacred Hunger" and "Stone Virgin". Set in 1908, on a small Greek island in the declining days of the Ottoman Empire, "Pascali's Island" presents "a compelling portrait of a schemer whose shabby amorality scarcely ensures his survival in a world where treachery is the rule" ("Boston Sunday Globe").
A Turkish spy for twenty years, Basil Pascali is puzzled by the arrival of a mysterious Englishman posing as an archaeologist, and wends his way into the heart of the woman for whom Pascali pines.

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Produktbeschreibung
A masterful tale by the author of "Sacred Hunger" and "Stone Virgin". Set in 1908, on a small Greek island in the declining days of the Ottoman Empire, "Pascali's Island" presents "a compelling portrait of a schemer whose shabby amorality scarcely ensures his survival in a world where treachery is the rule" ("Boston Sunday Globe").
A Turkish spy for twenty years, Basil Pascali is puzzled by the arrival of a mysterious Englishman posing as an archaeologist, and wends his way into the heart of the woman for whom Pascali pines.
Autorenporträt
Barry Unsworth (1930-2012), who won the Booker Prize for Sacred Hunger, was a Booker Prize finalist for Morality Play and was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize for The Ruby in Her Navel.