I recommend this book to those of you are interested in understanding the problems of modern day Greece, its current economic crisis and the violence of street protests. I may surprise many. ”My gosh! This is a book of fiction,” you will exclaim. To understand today’s current problems it is always ...
BABTProduct Description: Athens, 1942 two sisters divided by politics and tragedy... In 2008 Antigone Perifanis returns to her old family home in Athens after 60 years in exile. She has come to attend the funeral of her only son, Nikitas, who was born in prison, and whom she has not seen since she ...
Princess Sophy Dolgorouky (called Sofka) was born in 1907 into an ancient family of nobility. She grew up in an atmosphere of incredible privilege and cossetting, raised by her stiff grandmother and, intermittently, her rebellious surgeon mother and diletante father. Her family fled to Europe duri...