The latest addition to my website is >Alki Zei‘s> Η αρραβωνιαστικιά του Αχιλλέα (Achilles’ Fiancée. Eleni, née Daphne is involved in the various left-wing movements opposed to the German occupiers, the British and Americans, the royalists and the Junta. When sixteen she meets one of the leaders, code name Achilles and they become close. As … Read more
The latest addition to my website is Vassilis Vassilikos‘ Γλαύκος Θρασάκης (The Few Things I Know about Glafkos Thrassakis). Our unnamed narrator is writing a biography about painter and author Glafkos Thrassakis. Thrassakis is now deceased, allegedly eaten by New Guinean cannibals, though that fact, like many others in this book may well be wildly … Read more
The latest addition to my website isAris Alexandrou‘s Το Κιβώτιο (Mission Box). A prisoner is writing down for an absent interrogator his account of an expedition taking a sealed metal box from N to K. This is during the Greek Civil War and our hero is on the side of the Leninist communists. The mission … Read more
The latest addition to my website is Nikos Bakolas‘ Η Μεγάλη Πλατεία (Crossroads). This long novel is set primarily in Thessaloniki between the late 1920s and 1949, a turbulent period in Greek history. We initially follow four main characters – a not very successful journalist, a sailor, a refugee who lost her parents when fleeing … Read more
The latest addition to my website is ZateliZyranna Zateli‘s Και με το φως του λύκου επανέρχοντα ( ( At Twilight They Return). The novel is set in a remote part of Greece in the late nineteenth century. We follow a (very) extended family with patriarch Christoforos marrying three times, having several children but also marrying … Read more