Vintage
February 2022
On Sale: February 15, 2022
Featuring: William Matthew Flinders Petrie; Lloyd Wilkinson Petrie
192 pages ISBN: 0593312767 EAN: 9780593312766 Kindle: B09Q1VVK74 Trade Size / e-Book Add to Wish List
Lloyd Wilkinson Petrie, one of the seven elderly trustees of the now-defunct (for thirty-four years) Temple Academy for Boys, is preparing a memoir of his days at the school, intertwined with the troubling distractions of present events. As he navigates, with faltering recall, between the subtle anti-Semitism that pervaded the school's ethos and his fascination with his own family's heritage--in particular, his illustrious cousin, the renowned archaeologist Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie--he reconstructs the passions of a childhood encounter with the oddly named Ben-Zion Elefantin, a mystifying older pupil who claims descent from Egypt's Elephantine Island.
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