Levkas man Louis de Bernieres Trapped between professional stagnation and

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Levkas man Louis de Bernieres Trapped between professional stagnation andWhen his parents died, Paul was sent to Amsterdam to live with his mothers old lover, the eccentric archaeologist Pieter Van der Voort. Paul became a man in that cramped, strange house, cooped up with skeletons, fossils, and his increasingly mad guardian, who was obsessed with the search for the origins of man. Finally, Paul can take no more. He hops a freighter and spends eight years at sea before returning home to find Van der Voort goneand a