Farewell Anatolia is a tale of paradise lost and of shattered innocence; a tragic fresco of the fall of Hellenism in Asia Minor; a stinging indictment of Great Power politics, oil-lust and corruption. Dido Soteriou's novel - a perennial best-seller in Greece since it first appeared in 1962 - tells the story of Manolis Axiotis, a poor but resourceful villager born near the ancient ruins of Ephesus. Axiotis is a fictional protagonist and eyewitness to an authentic nightmare: Greece's "Asia Minor Catastrophe," the death or expulsion of two million Greeks from Turkey by Kemal Attaturk's revolutionary forces in the late summer of 1922. Manolis Axiotis' chronicle of personal fortitude, betrayed hope, and defeat resonates with the greater tragedy of two nations: Greece, vanquished and humiliated; Turkey, bloodily victorious. Two neighbours linked by bonds of culture and history yet diminished by mutual greed, cruelty and bloodshed.

Farewell Anatolia (Modern Greek Writers)

Literature & Fiction

Soteriou, Dido

History & Criticism

Kedros S.A.

Astradeni (Modern Greek Writers Series)

Fakinou, Eugenia

Koula (Modern Greek Writers Series)

Romance

Koumandarèas, Mènis

Fantasy

Emmanuel Retsinas (call him Louis) flows like a river in full flood through Red Dyed Hair, the brilliant first novel by Greek playwright Kostas Mourselas. Louis is the "almost man," once and forever lumpen and anarcho-communist, sometime circus daredevil, part-time yacht captain, full-time subverter of propriety, morals, order. Destroyer, builder, provocateur, catalyst extraordinary. Spanning four decades of contemporary Greek life as seen from the bottom of the barrel, the novel is an inspired mixture of social satire and political history, a compendium of the bizarre, the erotic, the banal and the unbearable - peopled by a crazed yet touching cross-section of social rejects and climbers, betrayed leftists and police informers, of con-men become businessmen, of whores and bouzouki singers, pimps and greengrocers. In scene embedded within scene, Red Dyed Hair spins a tale of social and personal cowardice and treachery against a distant backdrop of courage betrayed at the cost of death.

Red Dyed Hair

Mourselas, Kōstas

Good Friday Vigil (Modern Greek Writers Series)

Ioannou, Yorgos

Contemporary

Three Summers (Modern Greek Writers Series)

Liberaki, Margarita

Van Dyck, Karen

This trilogy (The Club, Ariagni, The Bat) is the saga of three cities - Jerusalem, Cairo and Alexandria - drifting towards chaos in a war-torn Middle East. At its centre is Manos: man of intellect and integrity, lover of life, hero of the Greek war against the Italian Invasion, who deserted the national army to join the leftists in the clandestine struggle against the Greek fascists and royalists. Underground operations lead him from city to city, involving him in a chain of shifting and perilous relationships and Manos is forced to choose between his humanist impulses and the brutal dictates of ideological orthodoxy. 
Combining an exotic brilliance of detail reminiscent of Durrell's Alexandria novels with the sweep and historical passion of Malraux, Stratis Tsirkas has, with Drifting Cities, established himself as a novelist of international importance.

Drifting Cities: A Trilogy (Modern Greek Writers Series)

Tsirkas, Strates

Tsitsele, Kaie

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