The Cypriot

✍ Scribed by Andeas Koumi

• Book ID: 110588773
• Publisher: Dexter Haven Publishing
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 188 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781903660164
• ASIN: B00WUWWFJK

✦ Synopsis

The Cypriot is a powerful story of love across a divide of religion and identity, of passionate loyalties and heartrending choices.

It is the 1950s, and Cyprus is under British rule; the struggle for freedom begins. To the Orthodox Christian majority, freedom means enosis – union with Greece. To the Muslim minority, enosis means disaster. Andonis, a Christian, struggles for his own freedom: to be a tailor and escape a life in his father’s fields; to be a Cypriot and be with his forbidden Muslim love. At stake are family and friendships, beliefs and traditions, village
and homeland. The novel builds to a climax in the Turkish invasion of 1974, an event whose impact is still felt regionally and globally.

This is a gripping story of a community torn apart by outside forces, of mistrust and bloodshed fuelled by international politics.