[{"id":6146,"title":"Mother Thessaloniki","subtitle":null,"description":"A nice book this about the mother city. It consists of pieces written by Nikos Gabriel Pentzikis. Most modern Greek writer, most distinctly Greek, Pentzikis assembles his pieces so that, beginning in alienation, with the recalcitrance and transience of things, the casual cruelties of space and time, they reach out, through the luminous orthodox immanences of the past, the reverberations of hisotrical memory, towards an inclusive desity of present experience. And the wonder lies, the beauty, in the way that the sense, looming in the endlessly modulatig density of style, the orthodox presence of the city.","image":"http://www.biblionet.gr/images/covers/b6451.jpg","isbn":"960-04-1425-4","isbn13":"978-960-04-1425-7","ismn":null,"issn":null,"series":{"id":895,"name":"Modern Greek Writers","books_count":37,"tsearch_vector":"'greek' 'modern' 'writers'","created_at":"2017-04-13T00:57:20.275+03:00","updated_at":"2017-04-13T00:57:20.275+03:00"},"pages":145,"publication_year":1998,"publication_place":"Αθήνα","price":"9.0","price_updated_at":"2010-07-28","cover_type":"Μαλακό εξώφυλλο","availability":"Κυκλοφορεί","format":"Βιβλίο","original_language":null,"original_title":"Μητέρα Θεσσαλονίκη","publisher_id":10,"extra":null,"biblionet_id":6451,"url":"https://bibliography.gr/books/mother-thessaloniki.json"},{"id":18546,"title":"Astradeni","subtitle":null,"description":"\"Gradma Eleni says it's my name, Astradeni, that's to blame, because Astradeni means 'the one who binds the stars.' And who, other than a fairy creature, can bind the stars? I don't tell anyone this, of course...\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSymi, the small island near Rhodes, is where the eleven-year-old heroine of this novel grows up, until financial reasons oblige the family to move to Athens. Astradeni leaves behind a close-knit community, a natural setting that stimulates her imagination, and a rich store of traditional values in which both religion and magic lore have their place. The author lets her tell her own story with winning charm and candour in a style that allows her sensitivity and the sparkle of her intelligence to shine through.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA born storyteller, Astradeni supplies vivid details of the life and human relations on a remote Aegean island, as well as her efforts to adapt to the hard and alienating conditions of city life. For beneath the surface charm of a young girl's narrative the reader is in fact witnessing a painful process of social change, the violence done to the sense of values of individuals experiencing an abrupt transition from a traditional agrarian culture to a competitive, industrialised society of consumers.","image":"http://www.biblionet.gr/images/covers/b19158.jpg","isbn":"960-04-0483-6","isbn13":"978-960-04-0483-8","ismn":null,"issn":null,"series":{"id":895,"name":"Modern Greek Writers","books_count":37,"tsearch_vector":"'greek' 'modern' 'writers'","created_at":"2017-04-13T00:57:20.275+03:00","updated_at":"2017-04-13T00:57:20.275+03:00"},"pages":239,"publication_year":1992,"publication_place":"Αθήνα","price":"12.0","price_updated_at":"2010-07-28","cover_type":"Μαλακό εξώφυλλο","availability":"Κυκλοφορεί","format":"Βιβλίο","original_language":null,"original_title":"Αστραδενή","publisher_id":10,"extra":null,"biblionet_id":19158,"url":"https://bibliography.gr/books/astradeni.json"},{"id":18550,"title":"Jaguar","subtitle":null,"description":"The author has called \"The Jaguar\" an extravagant story.\" He employs an extravagant style to stress the irony of his heroine's attempt to preserve a false image of her moral superiority in the process of promoting selfish ends.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe historical events referred to in Dimitra's of herself and her family belong to the Second World Wi1r period. Dimitra, a mathematics teacher, had been an active member of the leftist resistance movement during the Nazi occupation of Greece and was persecuted as a communist in the civil war that followed. Years later, she likes to think, of herself as an uncompromising individual engaged in a noble struggle to promote the ideals of a socialist revolution.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe unexpected return of her sister-in-Iaw Philio from America to claim an inheritance forces her to take a good look at the past. Her breathless interior monologue throughout the night of her confrontation with Philio reveals Dimitra's obstinate refusal to accept the \"bourgeois\" compromises she has meanwhile made and has been comfortably living with for the past ten years.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe extravagant melodrama of Dimitra's rhetoric often becomes a caricature of dialectic reasoning, a comic version of double-think paring reality to make it fit within the confines' of wishful thinking and self-righteousness. When the verbal torrent is finally spent., the comedy fades leaving a bitter after-taste of the pathos of self-deception.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn native South American religion the jaguar was regarded as a fierce deity representing forces of war, destruction and human sacrifice.","image":"http://www.biblionet.gr/images/covers/b19162.jpg","isbn":"960-04-0486-0","isbn13":"978-960-04-0486-9","ismn":null,"issn":null,"series":{"id":895,"name":"Modern Greek Writers","books_count":37,"tsearch_vector":"'greek' 'modern' 'writers'","created_at":"2017-04-13T00:57:20.275+03:00","updated_at":"2017-04-13T00:57:20.275+03:00"},"pages":143,"publication_year":1997,"publication_place":"Αθήνα","price":"7.0","price_updated_at":"2010-07-28","cover_type":"Μαλακό εξώφυλλο","availability":"Κυκλοφορεί","format":"Βιβλίο","original_language":null,"original_title":"Ιαγουάρος","publisher_id":10,"extra":null,"biblionet_id":19162,"url":"https://bibliography.gr/books/jaguar.json"}]