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Under his passionate, yet humorous, scrutiny, Mrs. Freeman and her husband come alive with great vividness, all the while retaining intact the mystery of their \"otherness.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe book is much more than the story of Mrs. Freeman's life and times; it also offers an ironical insight into the confrontation of two cultures, two different ways of looking at the world.","image":"http://www.biblionet.gr/images/covers/b43806.jpg","isbn":"960-04-0482-8","isbn13":"978-960-04-0482-1","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":117,"publication_year":1991,"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":"Τι θέλει η κυρία Φρίμαν","publisher_id":10,"extra":null,"biblionet_id":43806,"url":"https://bibliography.gr/books/what-does-mrs-freeman-want.json"},{"id":9170,"title":"Heroes' Shrine for Sale or the Elegant Toilet","subtitle":null,"description":"Kesariani, once you were a star; for a moment you shone in the firmament and then, you vanished for ever into the void of history... There's nothing left. Now you're plastering the last traces of gunshots on your forehead, like an old dog licking its wounds, where the scar has healed.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMarios Hakkas lived almost all his tragically short life close to the Athenian neighbourhood of Kesariani, in the shadow of Mount Hymettos. Throughout the Nazi Occupation of Greece, this district was the symbol of Greek Resistance and Hakkas' stories are indelibly marked by the blood-stained events of the Kesariani \"Skopeftirio\" (Shooting-Ground), where at least a thousand Greek Partisans sacrificed their lives. With sharp irony, but also occasional flashes of elegiac lyricism, Hakkas laments the loss of this valiant spirit. Wrathfully, he imagines the once heroic Shooting-Ground being sold out to land-grabbers, interested only in profiteering and money-grubbing shop-owners. The acquisition of a newfangled \"elegant toilet\" becomes the symbol of this new Kesariani, where disappointed ex-idealists are no longer able to dream or even to remember their recent struggles. However, the last story in the last book records the voice of a single lad, killed while resisting, and this outcry remains vibrantly alive, demanding justice from future generations.\u003cbr\u003e","image":"http://www.biblionet.gr/images/covers/b9560.jpg","isbn":"960-04-1333-9","isbn13":"978-960-04-1333-5","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":110,"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":"Ο μπιντές. Το κοινόβιο. 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How are the established Orthodox saints, traditionally decorating the panels near the altar, how are they replaced by anonymous human beings? - everyday people from Ritsos' neighbourhood; members of his large family and simple inhabitants of Monemvasia; unassuming fellow-prisoners on exile islands and a closely-knit band of friends.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAll these \"anonymities\" are skillfully counterpointed with the hero - Ion - and Ion's alter ego - Ariostos - and woven into a fascinating tapestry of reminiscences and reflections, vivid memories from childhood and adolescence, speculations on Greece's recent history, confessions bordering on psycho-analytical introspection, and, occasionally, surrealistic dreams. Ritsos' Iconostasis is embellished with an almost Joycean richness of words, including outrageous puns, unprecedented, though ineffably \"poetic\", erotica and miraculous flights of language.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Part Three, Ritsos adds the finishing touches to his vast mosaic bringing his visionary cycle full circle.\u003cbr\u003eA.M.","image":"http://www.biblionet.gr/images/covers/b61602.jpg","isbn":"960-04-1945-0","isbn13":"978-960-04-1945-0","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":255,"publication_year":2001,"publication_place":"Αθήνα","price":"14.0","price_updated_at":"2010-07-28","cover_type":"Μαλακό εξώφυλλο","availability":"Κυκλοφορεί","format":"Βιβλίο","original_language":null,"original_title":"Εικονοστάσιο ανωνύμων αγίων: Σφραγισμένα μ' ένα χαμόγελο: Λιγοστεύουν οι ερωτήσεις: Ο Αρίοστος αρνείται να γίνει Άγιος","publisher_id":10,"extra":null,"biblionet_id":61602,"url":"https://bibliography.gr/books/iconostasis-of-anonymous-saints-13fc5bd8-ac61-4328-996f-97a8b2d2ea14.json"},{"id":8953,"title":"Good Friday Vigil","subtitle":null,"description":"The protagonist in each of these stories is a solitary individual, alienated from society, haunted Dy memurira, fascinated by the disgusting, obsessed with the relationship between love and death, and fetishistically attached to certain objects that bear the traces of traumatic experiences. Ioannou brilliantly highlights the discrepancy between intimate acts of sex and violence, and the way people pretend in public that life can be lived withoutphysicality.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \"Good Friday Vigil\"- his last book of stories before his untimely death in 1985 - Ioannou departs from the conversational tone of his earlier work and develops an intricate style whose wanderings evoke the associative meanderings of the memory.\u003cbr\u003e","image":"http://www.biblionet.gr/images/covers/b9343.jpg","isbn":"960-04-0638-3","isbn13":"978-960-04-0638-2","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":126,"publication_year":1995,"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":null,"publisher_id":10,"extra":null,"biblionet_id":9343,"url":"https://bibliography.gr/books/good-friday-vigil.json"},{"id":9060,"title":"The Cicadas","subtitle":"A Novel","description":"They're the gang that can't shoot straight: tough-guy wannabes straight out of a Greek-subtitled version of Thieves Like Us, downmarket motorcycle punks (no Hell's angels these), dead-end kids from the urban depths with foulmouthed girlfriends and parents as remote as prosperity. Innocents with attitude.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStamati, the bumbling ringleader, his faithful side-kick Takouli, and Foti, a self-styled strong, silent type who falls for a horny journalist, form a threesome with no past, no future, and a present as insouciant and short-lived as a cicada. Armed with little more than an empty shotgun and plenty of bravado, the three blow their big chance: a hold-up at a district tax office.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTheir Technicolor dream comes unraveled on a furious motorcycle ride north, in a comic brawl on a deserted beach, and in the final ignominy of capture under the flashing lights of a provincial disco.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLife, suggests The Cicadas, is as tough, nasty and indifferent as a B thriller. Vangelis Raptopoulos' characters, sketched with sure-handed empathy, with a knife-edged ear for the hard humor of the street, throb with the fervid intensity of cicadas buzzing in the noonday heat. Nothing in their voice intimated how soon they will die.\u003cbr\u003e","image":"http://www.biblionet.gr/images/covers/b9450.jpg","isbn":"960-04-1224-3","isbn13":"978-960-04-1224-6","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":172,"publication_year":1996,"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":"Τα τζιτζίκια","publisher_id":10,"extra":null,"biblionet_id":9450,"url":"https://bibliography.gr/books/the-cicadas.json"},{"id":9057,"title":"Her Night on Red","subtitle":null,"description":null,"image":"http://www.biblionet.gr/images/covers/b9447.jpg","isbn":"960-04-1188-3","isbn13":"978-960-04-1188-1","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":118,"publication_year":1996,"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":"Μια νύχτα με την κόκκινη","publisher_id":10,"extra":null,"biblionet_id":9447,"url":"https://bibliography.gr/books/her-night-on-red.json"},{"id":9097,"title":"Two Thrillers","subtitle":null,"description":"Newlyweds arrive at an old hotel where they are to spend their honeymoon. 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