“Elegant, erudite, sensual. Infused with lush detail and a deepsense of humanity.”Joan Harrison, Editor, Thedesna PressIn the early 1920s, a handful of interminable exiles,forced to flee their homesin Anatolia, repatriate to the mountains of Northern Greece. Refugees in their own land, they stake a claim upon an ancient cliff-top mooring appearingon no map, and overlooking a mysterious lake. Lambros Lambrou, the firstof them to arrive, obsesses over building a modern system to deliver water from the lake to the primitive village and the harsh land from which theydraw sustenance. But the village leaders are envious of any man who might profit over them. They resist the plan and resentments brew, dividing the village. When a prodigal American arrives and offers his land as a conduit for the water, the tapestry of convergent lives unravels. Neither love’s amorphous lightning nor catastrophes of nature or foreign occupation can quell thepolitics of thirst and the boiling blood of feud. An ode to our pagan origins, an allegory of the cost of love and loyalty, The Sapphire Elixir unfolds amid the seminal events of the 20th Century as endured in a shrouded corner of the earth.
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