The thirteen short stories that make up Amanda Michalopoulou's I'd Like read like versions of an unwritten novel: each riveting tale resonates with the others, and yet a sense of their connectedness remains tantalizingly out of grasp. Instead, we are presented with a kaleidoscope of characters and events, signs and emotions, linked by the uncanny ...
"Poems (1945-1971)" contains selections from the first seven volumes of Miltos Sachtouris' work. The collection traces the poetic development of a writer deeply affected by the turmoil of his times, from his emergence on the Greek literary world as a young man of 25, with a series of poems written during the Axis occupation of Greece, to a volume ...
First published in 1978, this novel, celebrated in Greece as a great modern work, is about a biographer writing a book about the eponymous Glafkos Thrassakis, a Greek writer--a book commissioned by Thrassakis's ex-lover, a Danish countess. As he embarks on his research, the biographer finds that everything known about Thrassakis's life is a ...
"By turns moving and scathingly satirical . . . Vassilikos has been so rarely translated into English; one can only hope this complex, multilayered novel will change that."-Mary Park, "The New York Times Book Review" A brilliant work of the imagination as well as an inspiring commentary on writing, the story follows a biographer's investigation ...
The older teens in your parish want a youth ministry program that exposes them to relevant, real-world topics in an active, engaging way. Horizons is an innovative, comprehensive approach to religious education. Its foundation is teacher-led, creative learning strategies that give students ample opportunities for discussion, reflection--and fun! ...
The story is simple: a love affair ends badly. But Margarita Karapanous novel tells the couples story twice, from opposing perspectives. Our sympathies are inverted; we dont know whom to trust; the distinction between truth and deception blurs, and then seems simply to dissolve. But inevitably both stories must arrive at the point of rien ne va ...
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