Corfu - Hardcover
A wry, thoughtful and beautifully evocative novel about living abroad and the search for home. When one Easter a young actor from Adelaide rents a house from a writer he's never heard of called Kester Berwick, he becomes fascinated by the absent Berwick's rootless, self-invented existence. Gradually, he finds his own life strangely echoing the absent writer's, as Corfu's eccentric expatriate community opens up to him. But is travelling a search or an escape? Is stillness stultifying or liberating? And where do love, sex and friendship fit? Corfu is also a meditation on literary landscapes, from Homer and Sappho to Chekhov and C.P. Calvary. Dessaix is alive to Corfu's ghosts - Odysseus, washed up naked on the shore to be found by the princess Nausicca; Elisabeth, Empress of Austria, who, hopelessly adrift on dreams of Homer, built a place called Achilleon; and Berwick himself, the absent centre where all these stories meet.
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- PublisherScribner
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 0743220382
- ISBN 13 9780743220385
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages352
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Corfu: A Novel
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