ASIN: B0071F4Q16
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Pages: 381
When Thasos and his family are thrown out of their homeland and left to drift in the open sea, they are rescued by the Keftiu, a people with an unpleasant reputation for human sacrifice. However, to the family's surprise, their rescuers treat them kindly and take them as honoured guests to the peaceful, distant island of Kaftor, where they find a sophisticated and very different civilisation, ruled by women. Thasos and his mother happily settle into the Palace of Cnossos, but his two warrior brothers can't come to terms with life in a matriarchy; a society where war is unheard of and there seems to be no such thing as crime or punishment. They soon find out that the usually placid Keftiu can deal very effectively with anyone who causes trouble.As Thasos grows up, he becomes aware that there is a very dark and troubling underside to this world. Finally his life is placed in terrible ...
