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When young Alex's Greek American family leaves the United States so his father can pursue a political career in Greece, he grows up amid revolution, military dictatorship, and the beauty of his father's homeland
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"Luminous in its reflection." --The New Yorker
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"Drawing on the dream-landscape that gave us Zeus and Hera, and also the House of Atreus, Nicholas Papandreou presents us with beautifully understated rites of passage." --Christopher Hitchens
"Honest and insightful, Nicholas Papandreou's elegant prose evokes the splendor of Greece, its people, and the wonder of a boy trying to find his place within it." --George Stephanopoulos
"A captivating portrait of childhood...elegant, colorful prose." --Jeremy Caplan, Boston Book Review
"Powerful, imaginative language..." --Catherine Temma Davidson, The San Francisco Chronicle
"Greece is irresistible. [Papandreou's] very first paragraph attests to the seduction." --Susan Salter Reynolds, The Los Angeles Times
"Sensuous and sharp...Tom Sawyer goes to Thasos." --Gore Vidal
The author grew up in Greece and King City, Canada. He has a Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University and a B.A. from Yale, and went to high school in King City, Ontario where he lived with his family during the Greek dictatorship. After completing his doctorate, he served two years in the Greek military and then worked as an economist at the World Bank in Washington D.C.. His short stories have been published in Threepenny Review, AGNI, Harvard Review, Quarterly West, Indiana Review, Antietam Review and elsewhere. He lives in Greece.
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- PublisherPicador USA
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0312186851
- ISBN 13 9780312186852
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages177
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