The latest addition to my website is Elias Venezis‘ Γαλήνη (Serenity). After World War I and the fall of the Ottoman Empire, the Greek army sought to protect the many Greeks who lived in Western Anatolia and whose ancestors had lived there for many hundreds of years. However the Turks under Kemal Ataturk defeated them and thousands of Greeks were driven out of Anatolia to Greece. As in this book, many were resettled in inhospitable areas. Our group end up in Anavyssos, a barren area by the sea near Cape Sounion.We follow their life there which inevitably is fraught with problems – the locals, a man digging for lost statues, flooding, land not suitable for growing crops or breeding animals and, of course fitting in to an entirely new life. Some adapt and others, such as a former aristocrat and the younger. generation, do not. As it is a Greek novel, we inevitably end up with a tragedy. Venezis tells his tale well, as we see how a group of refugees struggle with their new life.