Aristo Family Let Storm Clouds Pass series Book 3 edition by Raymond Nickford Literature Fiction eBooks
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Aristo Family Let Storm Clouds Pass series Book 3 edition by Raymond Nickford Literature Fiction eBooks
A few pages into this spellbinding novel by the amazing Raymond Nickford and I could not put it down. I was worried for the young Pavlos being held in the basement of his father’s private museum for the dead. A Cyprian archaeologist possessed by an obsession to connect with his “family” supposedly burnt beyond recognition after the Turks invaded Cyprus, Aristo controls his son through nightly hypnotism. Why does the boy not run? I found myself at the edge of my seat willing Pavlos to leave. Get out of there!Night visitors come to the small chilling museum, which is both claustrophobic and rich in imagery reminiscent of Poe with touches of Hitchcock.
This is a story about love sought and denied, about family both real and imagined, and about the hazy love-hate enemies we carry from the past. Aristo’s Family is a mystery within a mystery layered with unresolved longing and iced-over with love. This is a beautifully written literary work. Highly recommended.
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Aristo Family Let Storm Clouds Pass series Book 3 edition by Raymond Nickford Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
Raymond Nickford is the master of suspense and creepiness and this one doesn’t disappoint. Aristo needs to belong to the family who were destroyed in the Turkish invasion of Cyprus while his adolescent son Pavlos needs his father to be there mentally in the here and now, rather than obsessing over long lost ancient ancestors.
The deeper symbolism of the need to belong to family is the driving theme behind this novel, woven through with a chilling menace. Both father and son are trying to find and belong to their family one lost in the past, the other fighting for closeness and affection in the present. There’s another smaller but nevertheless interesting Oedipal theme when Pavlos becomes involved with the middle-aged archaeologist Katherine and the subsequent ritual cleansing’. Pavlos’ seeking comfort in a mother figure is all too easily understood in the context of losing his mother to his father’s obsession.
A menacing psychological tale where past and present, reality and dreams, and good and evil often become blurred.
Ghosts or real flesh and blood?
ARISTOS FAMILY
As I live part of the time in Cyprus, I thought this novel would be most interesting and from almost the first page, I found the style and voice of the novel atmospheric - a sure way to keep the reader hooked.
The story centres on a young Pavlos and his father Aristo; a museum curator and a Cyprian archaeologist with a burning obsession to connect with his family who were supposedly killed after the 1974 Turkish and Greek Cypriot war in Cyprus. The boy is controlled through nightly hypnotism and his father forces him to sit in the museum in the dead of night, to experience the visits from various people which he says are members of his past family.
The author, Raymond Nickford creates a psychological dialogue between father and son and the relationship mirrors our own daily fears during reality. But for all that, Aristo spends all his time worrying over his obsession and not with his son who is the one who really needs him.
I found Aristo's imaginary 'family' is shifty and disturbing. They lived in isolated huts in the Troodos mountains at night, forever frozen in a bygone age, which the boy Pavlos finds spine-chilling. During the hypnotic trances and whenever his son come out of them Aristo is distant, not just preoccupied, and almost to the point of control by the people he claims to have met up in the mountain dwellings. Pavlos makes the observation that they betray some strange ancient habits.
This story is almost a Greek myth as well as being deeply rooted in modern Cyprus. A parallel of old times with today. We can emphasise, and find love sought and denied families and their entwined relationships, together with enemies and their wrong-doings from the past.
The book is a mystery set within a mystery, very different from a lot of novels and is a beautifully written literary work.
I sure am happy I read Raymond Nickford's ARISTO'S FAMILY. Nickford's writing is eloquent and full of longing with characters who you will feel tender moments for, even through painful moments--a man searching for his long ago family and the man's son who misses his father. A lovely story. A must-read.
A few pages into this spellbinding novel by the amazing Raymond Nickford and I could not put it down. I was worried for the young Pavlos being held in the basement of his father’s private museum for the dead. A Cyprian archaeologist possessed by an obsession to connect with his “family” supposedly burnt beyond recognition after the Turks invaded Cyprus, Aristo controls his son through nightly hypnotism. Why does the boy not run? I found myself at the edge of my seat willing Pavlos to leave. Get out of there!
Night visitors come to the small chilling museum, which is both claustrophobic and rich in imagery reminiscent of Poe with touches of Hitchcock.
This is a story about love sought and denied, about family both real and imagined, and about the hazy love-hate enemies we carry from the past. Aristo’s Family is a mystery within a mystery layered with unresolved longing and iced-over with love. This is a beautifully written literary work. Highly recommended.
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