Falling For Icarus: A Journey Among the Cretans [Lingua Inglese] - Brossura

'A book that mixes lyricism with humour and compassion... MacLean's writing is at once whismical and serious, funny and painful...an intimate portrait of the sort of community we might not otherwise have encountered outside fiction' --Anthony Sattin, Sunday Times

'Touching, fresh and extremely funny. MacLean's prose moves elegantly from the elegiac to the ironic, from the sad to the grotesque or comic. A triumph.' --The Times Literary Supplement (TLS)

'An extraordinary work, curious and entertaining, tantalizing, often moving and above all entirely original - like everything MacLean writes, it's in a genre of its own' --Jan Morris

'a remarkable book... real and genuinely exciting.' --Guardian

'An extraordinary work, curious and entertaining, tantalizing, often moving and above all entirely original - like everything MacLean writes, it's in a genre of its own' --Jan Morris

Rory MacLean is a writer, broadcaster, blogger, and fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. His eight books, including UK bestsellers Stalin's Nose and Under the Dragon, have challenged and invigorated travel writing and, according to the late John Fowles, are among works that “marvellously explain why literature still lives.” He has won awards from the Canada Council and the Arts Council of England as well as a Winston Churchill Travelling Fellowship, and was nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary prize. He has written and presented over 50 BBC radio programs and worked on movies with Marlene Dietrich and David Bowie. Born in Canada and resident for many years in Britain, Rory now divides his time between London and Berlin.