The Figurine [electronic resource]

Hislop, Victoria2024

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Helena spends her childhood summers with her grandparents in Athens in the late 1960s, when Greece is ruled by a brutal military dictatorship under which her grandfather, remote and cruel, serves as a general. As a student, her interest in archaeology is ignited by a Summer spent on a dig on an Aegean island, where love finds her amid the heat and dust. A devastating betrayal – and a desire for revenge – set her on a new path. Sorting through the abandoned Athens apartment she inherits, Helena discovers a hidden hoard of priceless antiquities. How did her grandfather amass such a collection? And what was the human cost? Helena’s determination to return precious objects to their rightful places sees her journey to a criminal underworld and wrestle with the meaning of home – for the figurine and for herself.