Brandy Sour - Constantia Soteriou by angels that line the

by angels that line the roof like insects

a village in the drained marshlands near Lipen

It all starts with an innocuous curiosity: at the Hotel de Verbier

On one side was an image of the Opéra Garnier

Brandy Sour - Constantia Soteriou by angels that line theWhen it was built in the 1950s, nothing symbolised Cyprus entering the modern world like the Ledra Palace Hotel. In Constantia Soterious jewel of a novella, the ambitions and shortcomings of the islands 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