About the Author

John Dillon is Regius Professor of Greek (Emeritus) in Trinity College Dublin, having returned there in 1980 from a period in the University of California, Berkeley, where he was a member of the Classics Department from 1969 onwards. His chief area of interest is the philosophy of Plato and the tradition deriving from him, on which he has written a number of books. This is his debut novel.

Reviews

The cast of characters - the school people and the denizens of the local scene - are wonderfully observed. Ethiopia too, as landscape and history, is solidly 'there'. - Nobel prize winner, Seamus HeaneyAn outstanding work. - Ronan SheehanJohn Dillon captures the sense of a time before mass tourism, when travel itself was an adventure. - John S. Doyle