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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"},{"id":18445,"title":"Fool's Gold","subtitle":null,"description":"My father, thunderstruck, was demanding to know: \"But when? This is madness! Impossible.\" When ar fasf\u003cbr\u003ehe replaces the receiver in a grand Shakespearean manner - my father has it in the blood - he broke the news to us: Dictatorship. My mother cried out and collapsed in a heap on the sofa. Calliope the maid, as part of her duties, always manages to sense the right moment for a restorative coffee, and set off for the kitchen. My father repeated: \"Dictatorship, do you hear!\" I stared at him, shaking off sleep.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is how Myrsini Panayotou, an Athenian girl about to start university, learns of the coup d'etat that brought to power the infamous dictatorship of the \"Colonels\" in her country in the early hours of Friday, 21st April 1967. The child of a well-to-do family, Myrsini enthusiastically joins the underground resistance, making common cause with a varied cast of characters from backgrounds very different from her own. After an early failed love affair, she gets engaged to George, a political prisoner, only to find her human instincts increasingly difficult to reconcile with her idealistic philosophy once he is released. The story moves towards its climax as Myrsini becomes involved in the bloody events of 17th November 1973, when tanks were used to evict students from the Athens Polytechnic. At the same time the fortunes of Myrsini's family form a backdrop at once touching and bizarre to an impressionable girl's unflinching search for a true identity, both for herself and for her country.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Fool's Gold\" is a sparkling novel by a talented writer, one of the foremost of a generation which grew up in the shadow of the events Maro Douka describes.\u003cbr\u003e","image":"http://www.biblionet.gr/images/covers/b19057.jpg","isbn":"960-04-0481-X","isbn13":"978-960-04-0481-4","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":317,"publication_year":1991,"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 αρχαία σκουριά","publisher_id":10,"extra":null,"biblionet_id":19057,"url":"https://bibliography.gr/books/fools-gold.json"},{"id":18442,"title":"Achilles' fiancée","subtitle":null,"description":"The scene is Paris, sometime after the 1967 military coup in Greece. Eleni, together with a group of her friends and fellow political exiles, finds herself working as an extra in a French film: The Horror Train. It is not the first time Eleni has been caught up in a deadly drama, nor is it her first ride on a \"horror train.\" As the director waves his arms, shouting directions and re-shouting the sequence, Eleni's mind wanders to her first train ride: \"Athens-Piraeus. My first big trip by train. - You're Eleni? I'm Achilles.\u003cbr\u003eThey don't ask which Achilles. One name is enough...\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor the rest of her life, Eleni will be \"Achilles' Fiancee,\" fiancee of the guerilla leader, the brave, handsome kapetanios whose code-name is Achilles. In the demonstrations against the German occupiers of Greece, in prison where she waits for a death sentence during the post-war persecution of suspected leftists, in exile in Tashkent where the exiled Greek communists fight amongst themselves, and finally in Paris. But somewhere along the way Eleni becomes an indepentent character with a mind of her own. As she begins to doubt the slogans that she fought for when she was a blind follower of leaders like her fiance. Eleni involves us in her own private world of self-discovery. It is a woman's world, where human warmth and friendships matter more than abstract ideals.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Greek word for a novel is mythistorema, a word that combines \"myth\" and \"history.\" In her story of a young woman's struggle to survive through an extraordinary period of Greek history Alki Zei has woven the threads of her own quasi-mythical life into the stuff of history. The result is a compelling and beautiful novel that opens a new window on modern Greek history.","image":"http://www.biblionet.gr/images/covers/b19054.jpg","isbn":"960-04-0480-1","isbn13":"978-960-04-0480-7","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":374,"publication_year":1992,"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":"Η αρραβωνιαστικιά του Αχιλλέα","publisher_id":10,"extra":null,"biblionet_id":19054,"url":"https://bibliography.gr/books/achilles-fiancee.json"},{"id":97980,"title":"The Sacred Child","subtitle":null,"description":"1339. A dark and difficult time. Romania is rent by disputes among warring royal houses striving for ascendancy. Knights errant, blood-thirsty nobles, scheming courtiers and mysterious travelers in the night play leading parts in a bloody game of supremacy. The monk Dimitris Spartino, one of the last survivors of the patrician Spartinos family, is forced to flee when a man of royal descent slays his brother and tries to murder him as well. As ha and his retinue are trying to make their ay to Constantinople, he encounters an enigmatic creature that is worshipped as a god, the sacred child. From that moment on, fate unites them in a terrible secret.","image":"http://www.biblionet.gr/images/covers/b100504.jpg","isbn":"960-04-1867-5","isbn13":"978-960-04-1867-5","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":130,"publication_year":2003,"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":"Το θεόπαιδο","publisher_id":10,"extra":null,"biblionet_id":100504,"url":"https://bibliography.gr/books/the-sacred-child.json"},{"id":62781,"title":"The Joy is in the Journey","subtitle":null,"description":"This \"healing\" book plunges the reader in a world full of sea, colours, light and cool breeze that portray the many facets of Greek life, and at the same time gives simple, every day, apparently unimportant facts their real value. \"Whoever derives pleasure from small things always wins the lottery in life\", says the aged heroine who, born in the midst of the Smyrna Disaster of 1922, was rescued from the flames and brought to live in one of the Aegean islands where she found a second home and a loving family. As she spins out for us the difficulties she has had to face in her life, she initiates us to the most difficult art of all, the art of living. A precious initiation in our times of stress and alienation \u003cbr\u003e","image":"http://www.biblionet.gr/images/covers/b64496.jpg","isbn":"960-04-1988-4","isbn13":"978-960-04-1988-7","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":337,"publication_year":2001,"publication_place":"Αθήνα","price":"15.0","price_updated_at":"2010-07-28","cover_type":"Μαλακό εξώφυλλο","availability":"Κυκλοφορεί","format":"Βιβλίο","original_language":null,"original_title":"Ο δρόμος είναι η χαρά","publisher_id":10,"extra":null,"biblionet_id":64496,"url":"https://bibliography.gr/books/the-joy-is-in-journey.json"},{"id":132512,"title":"The Quest","subtitle":null,"description":"The novel encompasses the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th. Nikos, a young man, the son of a rich merchant who has eloped with the daughter of his business partner, leaves his Zagoria village in the Epirus region of north-west Greece in search of a better fate. His fascinating journey takes him first to Mytilene and then to Smyrna. In this cosmopolitan crossroads, a melting-pot of nationalities, cultures and beliefs, Nikos, who has now become Nikos - Efendi, makes a name for himself and becomes an influential member of society thanks to his wealth, acquaintances and family ties. In a world that is undergoing great changes, where new ideas are brewing, where new questions require new answers, our hero relentlessly continues his passionate quest: the fulfillment of his dreams. Those closest to him, whether in friendship, love, or thirst for power, narrate their common adventures against a background marked by the turbulent history of our modern times.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis novel, an amazing panorama of Greece and the Balkans at the tail-end of one century and the first years of the next, is undoubtedly one of the greatest best-sellers in modern Greek literature.\u003cbr\u003e","image":"http://www.biblionet.gr/images/covers/b135163.jpg","isbn":"978-960-04-3363-0","isbn13":"978-960-04-3363-0","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":376,"publication_year":2008,"publication_place":"Αθήνα","price":"22.0","price_updated_at":"2010-07-28","cover_type":"Μαλακό εξώφυλλο","availability":"Κυκλοφορεί","format":"Βιβλίο","original_language":null,"original_title":"Η αναζήτηση","publisher_id":10,"extra":null,"biblionet_id":135163,"url":"https://bibliography.gr/books/the-quest.json"}]