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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. Ο τυφεκιοφόρος του εχθρού","publisher_id":10,"extra":null,"biblionet_id":9560,"url":"https://bibliography.gr/books/heroes-shrine-for-sale-or-the-elegant-toilet.json"},{"id":9169,"title":"Gioconda","subtitle":null,"description":"A love born during the years of the Occupation reaches a peak of intensity. As the two young people grow up, in love, thousands of people are dying of hunger, the innocent are being tortured and patriots executed. Love does not triumph, however, but is brought to an end. The Germans begin to round up the Jews, including Gioconda ...\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA true story, of one of the most beautiful but tragic adolescent experiences.\u003cbr\u003e","image":"http://www.biblionet.gr/images/covers/b9559.jpg","isbn":"960-04-1344-4","isbn13":"978-960-04-1344-1","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":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":"Τζιοκόντα","publisher_id":10,"extra":null,"biblionet_id":9559,"url":"https://bibliography.gr/books/gioconda.json"},{"id":9171,"title":"Refugee Capital","subtitle":"Thessaloniki Chronicles","description":"Yorgos Ioannou's \"Refugee Capital: Thessaloniki Chronicles\" shines a harsh, ironic, yet compassionate light on his birthplace, the city of Salonica. The human geography and consciousness of which were indelibly marked by the arrival of hundreds of thousands of refugees from Asia Minor in the 1920's.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the prose pieces and essays that make up Refugee Capital their story is told, often through the eyes of an adolescent narrator recreated by a writer at the peak of his powers. Yorgos Ioannou sets out to rescue the enduring from the clutches of the ephemeral, to reconcile the irreconcilable, to harmonize the discordant. So he does. And brings an entire city, and its inhabitants, to life in all their fractious diversity.\u003cbr\u003e","image":"http://www.biblionet.gr/images/covers/b9561.jpg","isbn":"960-04-1367-3","isbn13":"978-960-04-1367-0","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":294,"publication_year":1997,"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":"Η πρωτεύουσα των προσφύγων","publisher_id":10,"extra":null,"biblionet_id":9561,"url":"https://bibliography.gr/books/refugee-capital.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"}]