{"product_id":"books-corfu-by-robert-dessaix","title":"Corfu","description":"A wry, thoughtful and beautifully evocative novel about living abroad and the search for home. When one Easter a young actor from Adelaide rents a house from a writer he's never heard of called Kester Berwick, he becomes fascinated by the absent Berwick's rootless, self-invented existence. Gradually, he finds his own life strangely echoing the absent writer's, as Corfu's eccentric expatriate community opens up to him. But is travelling a search or an escape? Is stillness stultifying or liberating? And where do love, sex and friendship fit? Corfu is also a meditation on literary landscapes, from Homer and Sappho to Chekhov and C.P. Calvary. Dessaix is alive to Corfu's ghosts - Odysseus, washed up naked on the shore to be found by the princess Nausicca; Elisabeth, Empress of Austria, who, hopelessly adrift on dreams of Homer, built a place called Achilleon; and Berwick himself, the absent centre where all these stories meet.","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53505273102609,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780743220385.jpg?v=1778094002","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/books-corfu-by-robert-dessaix","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}