Geckos of Bellapais Memories of Cyprus

List of contents

The Geckos of Bellapais

Three Poems by Niki Marangou

Three Poems by Joachim Sartorius

Acknowledgements

A note on place names

Selected reading

 

About the author

Joachim Sartorius has served as a diplomat to New York, Istanbul, Prague, and Nicosia. Currently, he holds a professorship at the Berlin University of the Arts, where he teaches cultural theory. Stephen Brown is a playwright, translator, and cultural critic. His translations from German include Sartorius’s The Princes’ Islands: Istanbul’s Archipelago and Birgit Haustedt’s Rilke’s Venice.

Summary

Originally published in 2013 as Mein Zypern by Mareverlag, Hamburg.

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“A ravishing account of the enchantment of a poet by the landscape, the light and the people of this archipelago. [Sartorius] rekindles in us the wish to buy a ticket at once and embark for the islands.”

— Orhan Pamuk, on The Princes’ Islands: Istanbul’s Archipelago

“[A] delightful book. . . . Sartorius travels genially and wisely, observing, talking, recording the table talk at dinner parties apparently verbatim, and making friends with leading figures in the island’s life, particularly artists.”

— Times Literary Supplement

Product details

• Authors: Joachim Sartorius, Joachim Sartorius
• Assisted by: Stephen Brown (Translation), Stephen (University of Ulster Northern Ireland) Brown (Translation)
• Publisher: Haus Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 01.10.2013, delayed
• EAN: 9781907973918
• ISBN: 978-1-907973-91-8
• Series: Haus Publishing - Literary Travellers; Armchair Traveller; Literary Travellers
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989); Travel > Travel guides