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You can read more about this book at Amazon's websites (where you also can order the book):
Amazon UK (Hardcover) Goatsong
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See below for information about the German translation
Category: historical fiction
First published: 1989
Publisher: St Martins Pr, published Jan 1990
ISBN: 0312038380, Hardcover
Size: 20.8 x 14.2 x 2.8 cm
This books is out of print. However, the new edition of Walled Orchard contains Goatsong as well, (they were intended to be one book from the beginning)

"A Novel of Ancient Athens (Walled Orchard Series, Vol 1)"

Book synopsis (The back of the book says)

Written by the author of "Lucia in Wartime", "Lucia Triumphant", "Expecting Someone Taller" and "Whose Afraid of Beowulf?", this is an historical novel set in Greece. Eupolis of Pallene, playwright and satirist, offers new and wicked perspectives on the glory that was Greece.

A sequel to Goatsong and The Walled Orchard was published on the 5th of August 1999.
The title of that book is Alexander At The World's End.

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In German

Amazon Deutschland (Paperback) Der Ziegenchor