[{"id":199563,"title":"With a Faber Number Τwo Pencil","subtitle":null,"description":"2014 READERS' PRIZE of PUBLIC BOOKSTORES (GREECE) \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlki Zei, the \"grande dame\" of Greek literature, narrates the story of the years of her youth, between 1925 and 1945, which determined her future path. In her exciting narration, a whole era revives, animated by the presence of famous Greek personalities of the arts and literature. In addition to being a memoir, Alki Zei's biographical narrative reveals remarkable examples of human behaviour in a completely unpretentious manner.\u003cbr\u003eNow it was the summer, the marble kitchen table was warm, and I was finally a Writer. I missed Thodora though. 'Not now, come back later on. She's working!' Work? I was simply revelling in it. Sometimes I'd hear a discreet knocking at the kitchen door: it was Miranda - Mrs Triantaphyllou - who'd been to see our play at the puppet theatre with Mummy. She knew I was in here working, and she'd bring me a glass of chilled lemon juice made with real lemons and real sugar. Even Lady couldn't possibly be getting real lemon juice to drink, I mused wryly.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I needed a good memory and much love in order to write the story of my life. In a novel, you can say whatever you imagine, you can move your heroes as you like, you can make them say whatever you think. But when the persons are real, you are not allowed to make the smallest mistake, especially when there is no longer anybody there to agree with or contradict you. Fortunately enough, there is my sister, whose memory is infallible and her life is entangled with mine. As soon as she read my book she said: 'That's how we lived, that's how those we met and loved were'. And I asked her: 'Now that you recalled our story, would you have preferred to have lived another life?' 'Absolutely not!' she replied spontaneously. 'Absolutely not!' I also added.\" Alki Zei\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"With a Faber Number Two Pencil is a book that every book lover wants to have in his library. It is a spiritual gem of today's publishing production.\"\u003cbr\u003e","image":"http://www.biblionet.gr/images/covers/b202754.jpg","isbn":"978-960-93-6905-3","isbn13":"978-960-93-6905-3","ismn":null,"issn":null,"series":null,"pages":336,"publication_year":2015,"publication_place":"Αθήνα","price":"20.0","price_updated_at":"2015-06-18","cover_type":"Μαλακό εξώφυλλο","availability":"Κυκλοφορεί - Εκκρεμής εγγραφή","format":"Βιβλίο","original_language":null,"original_title":"Με μολύβι φάμπερ νούμερο δύο","publisher_id":258,"extra":null,"biblionet_id":202754,"url":"https://bibliography.gr/books/with-a-faber-number-two-pencil.json"},{"id":199562,"title":"Wildcat under Glass","subtitle":null,"description":"1970 Mildred Batchelder Award (U.S.A.) / 2007 Premio Andersen - Il mondo dell'infanzia (ITALY)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA children's novel\u003cbr\u003eWildcat under Glass, first published in 1963 and translated in about 35 languages, is internationally acclaimed as a classic work having been successfully and repeatedly published in many countries apart from Greece until today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe story is set on an island in Greece during the 1930's as the nation is forced into a Fascist dictatorship. It is told through the eyes of a young girl named Melia, who relates the experiences of her family as they are forced to accept life under a repressive government. The book provides an interesting look at an important period of Greek history and tells it from a child's unsophisticated perspective. The naturalness and liveliness of the dialogue is combined with the seriousness and depth of the meaning. In a playful atmosphere, the reader is aware of and enjoys a mature thought that deals with and analyses social visions while trying to discover the threads that move them. The value of the book consists in precisely this combination. One of its virtues and what makes it universal is that the narration, although set in Greece at a particular period of time, seems somehow spaceless and timeless.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A masterpiece! Undoubtedly perfect, extremely moving. One should not always refrain from expressing one's enthusiasm! This novel sums up all the essential qualities that one seeks in the children's literature of our times. Through a sensitivity always alert, a freshness of the eye, a concrete vision that excludes all moralising prose, Alki Zei succeeds in keeping, from beginning to end, the \"childish\" tone of the narration in order to deal with overwhelming frankness with a subject of such grave consequence as Fascism, which for once we are not afraid to call by its name... One would need many pages to analyse what makes possible this perfect balance between the daring essence of the subject and the constant complicity of the writer with the children's world. The result is the passionate involvement of the reader, regardless of his or her age.\"","image":"http://www.biblionet.gr/images/covers/b202753.jpg","isbn":"978-618-81841-1-4","isbn13":"978-618-81841-1-4","ismn":null,"issn":null,"series":null,"pages":204,"publication_year":2015,"publication_place":"Αθήνα","price":"17.0","price_updated_at":"2015-06-18","cover_type":"Μαλακό εξώφυλλο","availability":"Κυκλοφορεί - Εκκρεμής εγγραφή","format":"Βιβλίο","original_language":null,"original_title":null,"publisher_id":258,"extra":null,"biblionet_id":202753,"url":"https://bibliography.gr/books/wildcat-under-glass.json"}]