Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Byzantine and Neohellenic Studies
ISBN-10
1788741226
ISBN-13
9781788741224
Edition
New
Publisher
Peter Lang International Academic Publishers
Imprint
Peter Lang International Academic Publishers
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Feb 28th, 2018
Print length
408 Pages
Weight
574 grams
Dimensions
22.70 x 15.00 x 2.60 cms
Product Classification:
Biography: historical, political & militarySociety & social sciences
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This book chronicles Greece’s turbulent history during the first half of the twentieth century as it both shapes and is shaped by one of its most distinguished political figures, Evangelos Averoff. Written by his daughter, the book is part historical biography, part coming-of-age novel and part memoir.
This book chronicles Greece’s turbulent history during the first half of the twentieth century as it both shaped and was shaped by one of its most distinguished political figures, Evangelos Averoff-Tossizza. Written by his daughter, the book is part historical biography, part coming-of-age novel, part memoir. It draws extensively on Averoff’s prolific literary oeuvre and personal archives, while weaving seamlessly back and forth from past to present in a voice all its own. We follow the protagonist from his birth in 1908, when Greece was still a monarchy reeling from the losses of the Greco-Turkish War of 1897, to the late 1940s and the Civil War, by which time Averoff had become a seasoned, cosmopolitan politician. In the interim, as the protagonist contends with the vagaries of history and a captivating cast of supporting characters, we see him grow into a living, breathing person, endowed with the complexity and humour so often denied the one-dimensional figures of official history. A labour of love and a meditation on loss and transcendence, the book celebrates the raw pain, passion, ambition, love and, at times, sheer luck that shape who we are.
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