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GREEK FICTION AND
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Book Description | Reviews | Details |
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The Third Wedding by Costas Taktsis
translated by Lelie Finer, fiction, paper, 303 pp. |
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ISBN |
0-87376-048-4 |
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Publication Date |
1986
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$14.95 |
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The German Occupation, the Civil War and life
itself seen through the eyes of two Athenian women.
By far the greatest novel Greece has produced
San Francisco Chronicle
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Book Description | Reviews | Details |
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Behind the White Screen by Sotiris
Spatharis, translated by Lesie Finer, memoir, cloth, 150 pp. |
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0-87376-022-0 |
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Publication Date |
1976
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$12.95 |
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The memoirs of the great
Greek shadow puppeteer and his history of the art of Karagiosis.
Spatharis' father was blinded
by a stone falling on him while he was working as a laborer on the
Acropolis. His mother took in washing. After the accident he led his father
out begging during the days. At night he sneaked off to the shadow theater.
Karagiosis became his great passion. He worked first as a puppeteer's
assistant and was able to start on his own when a neighbor gave him a sheet.
This he made into a screen which he slept beside outdoors at night so that
it would not be stolen. He made his own puppets, scenery, signs, wrote his
own plays and performed them with the help of a singer.
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