Averoff: Portrait of the Politician as a Young Man

ISBN-13: 9781788741224 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 384 str.

Patricia Barbeito; Tatiana Averoff

Opis

This book chronicles Greece's turbulent history during the first half of the twentieth century as it both shapes and is shaped by one of its most distinguished political figures, Evangelos Averoff. Written by his daughter, the book is part historical biography, part coming-of-age novel and part memoir.

Spis treści

CONTENTS: Birth, 17 April 1908 - The Call of the Earth - Lollis, Larissa, Summer 1918 - The Bounties of the Threshing Floor, Larissa, Summer 1919 - Mika - Uprooting - Rebirth, Athens 1920 - Land of Sorrow - Past and Present - On the Magic Mountain - The Long Winter - Farewells - Third Birth - Post Tenebras Lux - Delta phi - Pougio - In the Time of the Big Wind - Where Many Fall, Death Has No Meaning - The Prefect, 2 March 1941 - Taketh This Cup from Me - Under Occupation - This is Greece, Larissa, 1942 - Farewell, Larissa, 29 April 1942 - Fourth Birth - When the Gods Forgot - In Excellent Health and Spirits - A Fugitive in Rome - Liberty or Death - Repatriations - Fifth Birth - Metsovo! Metsovo! - Walnuts Trees in the Stony Earth - Dina

O autorze

Tatiana Averoff is the author of five novels. Her work has received numerous awards and nominations and has appeared in edited volumes, magazines and newspapers throughout Greece. Since 1995, she has served as Director of the Averoff Museum of Modern Greek Art in Metsovo, part of the Evangelos Averoff-Tossizza Foundation, a public service institution over which she has presided as chairwoman since its foundation in 1988. Since 1991, she has also served as Vice-President of the Board of Directors of the Baron Michael Tossizza Foundation which, since the 1950s, has played a pivotal role in the economic development and cultural renaissance of the region.

Patricia Felisa Barbeito is Professor of American Literatures at the Rhode Island School of Design and a translator of Greek fiction and poetry.