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Her husband was the marxist academic norman geras and their daughter sophie hannah is also a novelist and poet. Many years have passed since the end of the trojan war, and penelope is still waiting for her husband, odysseus, to return home. When a naked, halfdrowned man washes up on the beach, everything changes. Geras was born in jerusalem, british mandatory palestine. Discover new worlds, new lands and new possibilities in thi.
Her father was in the colonial service and she had a varied childhood, living in countries such as nigeria, cyprus, tanganyika now the mainland part of tanzania, gambia and british north borneo in a short span of time. Troy by adele geras is a historical fiction novel was one of the worst books i have read. Troy is a young adult novel by adele geras, published in 2000. Adele geras takes the story of the iliad, and while recreating it in way that mingles high adventure, tragedy, humour and fatalism, focuses specifically on the fates of five young people and is essentially a romance set in the framework of the trojan war. With exceptional grace and enormous energy, geras the tower room. Stream and download audiobooks to your computer, tablet or mobile phone. Rising action the war between the greeks and the trojans has been going on for the last ten years. Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools.
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