Steven Heighton
Author
Publisher
Hamish Hamilton, an imprint of Penguin Canada, a division of Penguin Random House Canada Limited
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"On the island of Cyprus, in the overgrown ruins of Varosha--a resort town abandoned since the Turkish invasion of 1974--a secret village thrives. Here, a community of resourceful exiles and refugees lives under the radar of the Turkish authorities, thanks to the good-natured, cheerfully corrupt Colonel Kaya. Each villager has his or her own cryptic reasons for hiding among the lemon and olive trees, for trying to keep the outside world at bay. Into...