Cleopatra's Wedding Present: Travels through Syria FROM THE PUBLISHER
Cleopatra's Wedding Present is the rare book that captivates its reader from the first page. Like the best travel books, Robert Tewdwr Moss's memoir of his travels through Syria resonates on many levels: as a profoundly telling vivisection of Middle Eastern society, a chilling history of ethnic crimes, a picaresque adventure story, a purely entertaining travelogue, and a poignant romance.
Tewdwr Moss, a brilliant young writer who was murdered in London the day after he finished his book, left this lyrical gem as his legacy. He adeptly captures an essence of the Middle East that is foreign to most of us, but which becomes real with his astute observations of the region's culture and explosive politics. He conveys what so many westerners find both fascinating and frightening in the Middle East, making no attempt to mask circumstances that are appalling and dangerous while also exotic, beautiful, and sometimes very funny.
FROM THE CRITICS
The New York Times
Tewdwr Moss was a promising literary journalist on the London scene, and his portrait of Syria is multihued and intensely romantic -- all the more romantic in retrospect, because he was murdered on Aug. 24, 1996, the day after he finished writing his book. He was just 34. Craig Seligman