Brandy Sour
Brandy Sour by Constantia Soteriou is a novella published by Foundry Editions in 2024, featuring 104 pages in English. This work explores the significance of the Ledra Palace Hotel, a symbol of Cyprus’s modernization in the 1950s, as it reflects the ambitions and challenges of the island’s tumultuous twentieth century through the lives of its diverse occupants.
Readers will encounter a range of characters, including a king in exile seeking solace in a drink disguised as tea, a porter who plants a rose from his village among the hotel’s gardens, a UN officer coping with the heat and deception through lemonade, and a cleaning lady who carries holy water. This narrative presents a personal and evocative portrayal of civil strife and division, capturing the reluctant roles these individuals play in the unfolding history of Cyprus.
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“When it was built in the 1950s, nothing symbolised Cyprus entering the modern world like the Ledra Palace Hotel. In Constantia Soteriou’s jewel of a novella, the ambitions and shortcomings of the island’s turbulent twentieth century are played out by its occupants. Among them we meet the king in exile who needs to drown his sorrows with a drink disguised to look like tea; the porter who, among the English roses of the hotel’s gardens, secretly plants a rose from his village to make his rosebud infusions; the UN officer who drinks lemonade to deal with the heat and the lies; and the cleaning lady who always carries her holy water with her. They are reluctant actors in history, evocatively captured in this moving, personal, and highly original portrait of civil strife and division.”–Provided by publisher.
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