Publishers Weekly, February 4th, 2002
March Publications The political scandals and bedroom intrigues of sixth-century B.C. Athens swirl around hero Alcibiades, a courageous (and sexy) Athenian general, in Daniel Chavarria's (Adios Mucha-chos) dense, imaginative and often extremely pretentious The Eye of Cybele. The Urugnayan-born mystery writer combines historical fact, Socratic discourse and plenty of plot twists in a novel that ponders everything from the disappearance of the titular jewel to the establishment of a bizarre new religion. (Akashic [www.akashicbooks.com], $27 413p ISBN 1-888451-25-4) What do English smalltown vi...
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