BOOKS FROM GREECEThe daughter
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Set in Greece
Male author
Description:
From one of Greece's most popular novelists comes this story of a 65-year-old actress, from her childhood in a provincial Greek town to her life as a pensioner. As a child she lives through the horrors of German occupation and the Greek civil war, seeing her mother sleep with Italian soldiers to feed her children, and later accused of collaborating with the enemy. This novel vividly recaptures a little discussed period of Greece's recent past, but is above all a book about passion, comparable to the wildly successful novel and now film, Corelli's Mandolin.
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(4 months ago) |
13 May, 2025
During the German occupation, a young mother takes an Italian lover while her husband is away fighting. With victory, the villagers will take their terrible revenge.
This is the mother's story as told by her daughter, Rarau, along with her own life story.
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