A PEASANT BOY IN CYPRUS

A Peasant boy in Cyprus, a periodic novel in paperback—the inventor, who makes things his wife wishes he did not, Andonis, the fat boy extortionist with limited ambitions, the taming of the fearsome Mad Elias, the sweet smelling Goula and her most wonderful bed, the death of the giant War Hero, the traumas of death in the family, how the Freemason got a husband for his aging daughter, the love and punishment of the peddler Costakis, the daring raid on the Moneylender’s grapes, the Rogue Wrestler who demands hospitality from all and gets his comeuppance, the terrors of a curfew and a host of other extraordinary events, characters and situations seen through the eyes of a boy growing up in a Cypriot village during the nineteen forties and fifties…