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Chimera
- Narrated by: David Thorpe
- Length: 12 hrs and 28 mins
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Summary
First published in 1989 Chimera was Simon Mawer’s first novel. Mawer is renowned as one of today's most talented writers of historical spy fiction.
The fabulous Chimera - mythic monster, part lion, part goat, part serpent - is more that just an Etruscan bronze discovered by archaeologist David Hewison. It lurks in the background of this novel as a symbol of the man himself: part Italian, part English, an explorer of the past who is haunted by his own past when he parachuted into wartime Italy as an SOE agent.
Yet this is not just a war story.
It is within the present, in the complex little world of an archaeological dig in central Italy, that the past is seen to work - the old conflicts of the Hewison family and the tragedies of wartime Italy surfacing in the present to precipitate a disturbing climax.
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- MrsMac
- 30-05-21
Very disappointing
I’ve enjoyed two or three other Simon Mawer books but this one just didn’t take off. Was our hero there as a combatant in the Allied war effort - if so why was he so concentrated on family issues of long ago and on archaeological excavations mysteriously being carried out in the midst of supposed conflict? I got too bored with it all to get beyond chapter 6.
The reader was clear and convincing in his various accents but a rather nasal delivery was not appreciated.
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