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An Orchestra of Minorities
€ 20.00Longlisted for the 2019 Man Booker Prize
A heart-breaking story about a Nigerian poultry farmer who sacrifices everything to win the woman he loves, by Man Booker Finalist and author of The Fishermen, Chigozie Obioma.“It is more than a superb and tragic novel; it's a historical treasure.”– Boston Globe
Set on the outskirts of Umuahia, Nigeria and narrated by a chi, or guardian spirit, AN ORCHESTRA OF MINORITIES tells the story of Chinonso, a young poultry farmer whose soul is ignited when he sees a woman attempting to jump from a highway bridge. Horrified by her recklessness, Chinonso joins her on the roadside and hurls two of his prized chickens into the water below to express the severity of such a fall. The woman, Ndali, is stopped her in her tracks.
Bonded by this night on the bridge, Chinonso and Ndali fall in love. But Ndali is from a wealthy family and struggles to imagine a future near a chicken coop. When her family objects to the union because he is uneducated, Chinonso sells most of his possessions to attend a college in Cyprus. But when he arrives he discovers there is no place at the school for him, and that he has been utterly duped by the young Nigerian who has made the arrangements.. Penniless, homeless, and furious at a world which continues to relegate him to the sidelines, Chinonso gets further away from his dream, from Ndali and the farm he called home.
Spanning continents, traversing the earth and cosmic spaces, and told by a narrator who has lived for hundreds of years, the novel is a contemporary twist of Homer's Odyssey. Written in the mythic style of the Igbo literary tradition, Chigozie Obioma weaves a heart-wrenching epic about destiny and determination.
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SALAMIS – TOUMBA / An Iron Age Sanctuary in Cyprus Rediscovered ( Excavations of the Cyprus Exploration Fund, 1890 )
€ 45.00SALAMIS – TOUMBA / An Iron Age Sanctuary in Cyprus Rediscovered ( Excavations of the Cyprus Exploration Fund, 1890 )
by Vassos Karageorghis and Thomas Kiely
with contributions by Anastasia Christophilopoulou, Giorgos Constantinou and Anja Ulbrich
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The Kornos Cave – An Early Byzantine Site in Cyprus
€ 30.00During the winter of 1955 a large-scale security operation was carried out by british troops in north Cyprus at the western end of the kyrenia mountains. during this operation a small unit of no. 45 commando, royal marines, commanded by Lieutenant P. J. F. Mcintosh, R. M., was engaged in searching the upper slopes of the mountains on seaward side to find caves and other types of possible hiding places. On Sunday, November 6th, the unit was operating within the village lands of Vasilia when the cave which forms the subject of this paper was discovered.
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