Eleni

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"Not only a son's poignant memorial to his dead mother but an important work of history"
MARY HENDERSON/ Observer
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A son's quest to avenge his mother's murder illuminates not just her life but an entire world obliterated by the tragedy of the Greek Civil War.
In 1948, in a Greek mountain village, a peasant woman, Eleni Gatzoyiannis was arrested, tortured and shot. She was one of the 158,000 victims of the Greek Civil War which ravaged her country in the wake of World War IL Her "crime" had been to help her children to escape from their village occupied by Communist guerrillas. Her son, Nicholas Gage, was then eight years old. Eleni is the story of his obsessive and harrowing reconstruction of his mother's life and death and his pursuit of his mother's killer.
"A devoted and brilliant achievement. . . One of the rare books in which the power of art recreates the full historical truth"
C. M. WOODHOUSE, UewYork Review of Books
"I cannot think of another... Tovább

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"Not only a son's poignant memorial to his dead mother but an important work of history"
MARY HENDERSON/ Observer
' • - t ái," " rr


A son's quest to avenge his mother's murder illuminates not just her life but an entire world obliterated by the tragedy of the Greek Civil War.
In 1948, in a Greek mountain village, a peasant woman, Eleni Gatzoyiannis was arrested, tortured and shot. She was one of the 158,000 victims of the Greek Civil War which ravaged her country in the wake of World War IL Her "crime" had been to help her children to escape from their village occupied by Communist guerrillas. Her son, Nicholas Gage, was then eight years old. Eleni is the story of his obsessive and harrowing reconstruction of his mother's life and death and his pursuit of his mother's killer.
"A devoted and brilliant achievement. . . One of the rare books in which the power of art recreates the full historical truth"
C. M. WOODHOUSE, UewYork Review of Books
"I cannot think of another book that so compellingly demonstrates the gradual deterioration of human values in the name of lofty goals .The scale of Eleni Is small, and the characters are not mentioned in histories of the period, but they are minutely observed and eloquently rendered" TED MORGAN, NewYorkTimes
Cover lettering by Stephen Raw, photograph of Kate Nelligan ^
in the 1985 film of the book courtesy of CBS : 10
Family photograph, 1946, courtesy of the author. Clockwise from top left: Kanta, Aunt Nitsa, Glykeria, Olga, Nikola (the author), Eleni and Fotini
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