The latest addition to my website is Maro Douka‘s Η αρχαία σκουριά (Fool’s Gold). The heroine/narrator of this novel, set in Athens between 1967 and 1974, is Myrsini, the only child of bourgeois parents. She considers herself to be centrist. However early on the Greek colonels take over. She gets involved in the opposition but is betrayed, arrested and tortured but manages to get out thanks to the influence of her family, unlike other comrades-in-arms from poorer backgrounds. She will later get involved again and again is helped by her family. While the political situation develops we also follow her personal life and that of her extended family. The vast majority of relationships in her extended family, whether boyfriend/girlfriend, husband/wife or parent/(adult) child are flawed, in many cases seriously flawed, including hers. She ends up with four half-siblings, all with different mothers. The comparison between rich and poor revolutionary and the Greek bourgeoisie partying while others suffer make for an interesting novel.