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Somoza The Athenian Murder
| The Athenian Murders by Jose Carlos Somoza Spanish author José Carlos Somoza originally published it under the title La caverna de las ideas (The Cave of Ideas). Translated by Sonia Soto, The Athenian Murders is his first novel to be published in English. This is one of those rare books that can claim to belong to popular and to literary fiction, appealing to a large number of readers and possibly in line for becoming a classic similar to The Name of the Rose. On the surface it appears to be a historical crime novel as Heracles is called upon to discover why a young student at Plato's Academy has been found murdered, but there is far more in this novel than a mere detective story. Most pages have footnotes, and these reveal that the Ancient Greek text is being translated by a modern man, one whose life seems to have an uncanny resemblance to the text, which itself seems to be replete with clues. But what secret are these clues going to uncover? |
