In the Shape of a Boar

A story of love & betrayal that begins in Ancient Greece & culminates with the legacy of the worst horrors of the twentieth century. This novel begins with the myth of the hunt for the boar of Kalydon. But a different story is buried in the ancient sources: treachery amongst the hunters & a destructive love affair. Three & a half millennia later, this version is re-enacted in the final chaotic months of the Second World War. This time the quarry is an SS officer & the hunters Greek partisans.

Hardcover. English. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 2000. ISBN: 9780297646181. 322 pp. Good with dw. Book No: 54375