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Come on Ellie feed the pig -- Tin soldier -- Mao -- And a kinder egg for the kid -- Placard and broomstick -- The blood of the onion -- Something will happen, you'll see -- The things they carried -- Charcoal mustache -- Foreign. Exotic -- For poor people -- The union of bodies -- Go out and burn them -- People are Streinz -- Penguins outside the accounting office -- Piece by piece they're taking my world away. |
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Ikonomou's stories convey the plight of those worst affected by the Greek economic crisis--laid-off workers, hungry children. In the urban sprawl between Athens and Piraeus, the narratives roam restlessly through the impoverished working-class quarters located off the tourist routes. Everyone is dreaming of escape: to the mountains, to an island or a palatial estate, into a Hans Christian Andersen story world. What are they fleeing? The old woes--gossip, watchful neighbors, the oppression and indifference of the rich--now made infinitely worse. In Ikonomou's concrete streets, the rain is always looming, the politicians' slogans are ignored, and the police remain a violent, threatening presence offstage. Yet even at the edge of destitution, his men and women act for themselves, trying to preserve what little solidarity remains in a deeply atomized society, and in one way or another finding their own voice. There is faith here, deep faith--though little or none in those who habitually ask for it. From the Trade Paperback edition. |
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Short stories, Greek (Modern)
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Short stories, Greek (Modern) |
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Short stories.
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Electronic books. |
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Electronic books.
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Short stories.
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Boundless (Digital media service)
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| ISBN |
9780914671367 : $18.00 |
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0914671367 : $18.00 |
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