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"In The Fall of Troy, acclaimed novelist and historian Peter Ackroyd creates a fascinating narrative that follows an archaeologist's obsession with finding the ruins of Troy, depicting the blurred line between truth and deception.Obermann, an acclaimed German scholar, fervently believes that his discovery of the ancient ruins of Troy will prove that the heroes of the Iliad, a work he has cherished all his life, actually existed. But Sophia, Obermann's young Greek wife, has her suspicions about his motivations ' suspicions that only increase when she finds a cache of artifacts that her husband has hidden, and when a more skeptical archaeologist dies from a mysterious fever. With exquisite detail, Ackroyd again demonstrates his ability to evoke time and place, creating a brilliantly told story of heroes and scoundrels, human aspirations and follies, and the temptation to shape the truth to fit a passionately held belief. From the Trade Paperback edition."
"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 tying canvas sacking to her legs so that she can kneel in the trench, removing the earth methodically, lifting out amphorae and bronze vessels without damaging them. Sophia finds herself increasingly baffled by the past ... not only the remote past that Obermann is so keen to share with her in the form of his beloved epics of the Trojan wars, but also his own, recent past - a past that he has chosen to hide from her."
"Obermann dirige les fouilles d'Hissarlik en Turquie, en cette fin de XIXe siècle. Pourvu d'une imagination et d'un enthousiasme débordants, il est persuadé d'être en train de déblayer les ruines de Troie. Parallèlement, Sophia, son épouse, incarnant une nouvelle Hélène, découvre peu à peu le passé de son mari. Un récit mêlant vérité historique et reconstruction fictive du passé. [Memento]."
"It is Peter Ackroyd's remarkable achievement, in this complex and fascinating novel, to take a figure who was already a legend in his own lifetime, and recreate him as a creature of myth; indeed, an epic hero, able to shape truth to his vision, to call on the powers of the gods still residing among the ruins of the city. His Heinrich Obermann - a name for a demigod - has one unswerving goal: all his being is concentrated on demonstrating to the world, in the teeth of general opinion to the contrary, that Homer's account of the Trojan war is a true relation of events and that the Trojan warriors were Europeans, not Asians, and of noble race. This quest - to establish the truth of what has been thought of as fable - is the central element in an intricate pattern that runs through the novel, managed by Ackroyd with great skill: a pattern of ambiguities, where opposed concepts cross their borderlines and interweave, truth merging with invention, fable with fact, the rational with the visionary. Obermann is dangerous in his passionate convictions, perhaps even capable of murder."
"Working on a nineteenth-century excavation of the ancient ruins of Troy, Sophia, the young Greek wife of German archaeologist Heinrich Obermann, becomes suspicious about her husband's past when she finds a cache of artifacts that he had hidden away."
"Celebrated German archaeologist Herr Obermann marries a young Greek woman who is able to read Homer in order to help him in his excavations of what he believes to be the ancient city of Troy."

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"Historical fiction"
"Adventure fiction"
"Electronic books"
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"Parodies, imitations, etc"
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"La chute de Troie : roman"
"La Caída de Troya"
"A queda de Tróia"
"De val van Troje : roman"
"Troya'nın düşüşü : roman"
"The fall of Troy"
"Troya'nın düşüşü"
"The fall of Troy a novel"
"La caída de Troya"@es
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"The fall of Troy : a novel"

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