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Nitsa goes contrary to the society of her day and we know that society, even if it is defeated and altered by people demanding change, takes its revenge on them.","image":"http://www.biblionet.gr/images/covers/b24769.jpg","isbn":"960-302-022-2","isbn13":"978-960-302-022-6","ismn":null,"issn":null,"series":null,"pages":298,"publication_year":1992,"publication_place":"Αθήνα","price":"16.0","price_updated_at":"2011-06-27","cover_type":"Μαλακό εξώφυλλο","availability":"Κυκλοφορεί","format":"Βιβλίο","original_language":null,"original_title":"Η τρίμορφη γυναίκα","publisher_id":133,"extra":null,"biblionet_id":24769,"url":"https://v2.bibliography.gr/books/the-threesided-woman.json"},{"id":8969,"title":"The Facade Lady of Corfu","subtitle":null,"description":"In his brilliantly constructed novel, Spiros Plaskovitis counterpoints his enigmatic heroine -Anghelina Dassiou- agianst the touristic \"development\" (or destruction?) of most Greek islands today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnghelina, although forced by circumstances to work as a sales-lady in the deluxe tourist hotel, still personifies nostalgia for the traditional couleur locale of Corfu -particularly the old Venetian town. The big buisness explotation of the island is represended by Nikias Zavolis, the odious manager of the hotel, where the hero -Dimos Hairetis- is spending his holiday with his exotic half-caste mistress. 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Under his passionate, yet humorous, scrutiny, Mrs. Freeman and her husband come alive with great vividness, all the while retaining intact the mystery of their \"otherness.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe book is much more than the story of Mrs. Freeman's life and times; it also offers an ironical insight into the confrontation of two cultures, two different ways of looking at the world.","image":"http://www.biblionet.gr/images/covers/b43806.jpg","isbn":"960-04-0482-8","isbn13":"978-960-04-0482-1","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":117,"publication_year":1991,"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":"Τι θέλει η κυρία Φρίμαν","publisher_id":10,"extra":null,"biblionet_id":43806,"url":"https://v2.bibliography.gr/books/what-does-mrs-freeman-want.json"},{"id":9170,"title":"Heroes' Shrine for Sale or the Elegant Toilet","subtitle":null,"description":"Kesariani, once you were a star; for a moment you shone in the firmament and then, you vanished for ever into the void of history... There's nothing left. Now you're plastering the last traces of gunshots on your forehead, like an old dog licking its wounds, where the scar has healed.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMarios Hakkas lived almost all his tragically short life close to the Athenian neighbourhood of Kesariani, in the shadow of Mount Hymettos. Throughout the Nazi Occupation of Greece, this district was the symbol of Greek Resistance and Hakkas' stories are indelibly marked by the blood-stained events of the Kesariani \"Skopeftirio\" (Shooting-Ground), where at least a thousand Greek Partisans sacrificed their lives. With sharp irony, but also occasional flashes of elegiac lyricism, Hakkas laments the loss of this valiant spirit. 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. 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In the epicenter is the Greek island of Hydra, with its traditions, its people and their dreams.All are interweaved in the exciting novel of Spyros Sarellas, a real page turner, creating pictures in our minds, that succeed each other in an incredible pace.","image":"http://www.biblionet.gr/images/covers/b235383.jpg","isbn":"978-960-200-199-8","isbn13":"978-960-200-199-8","ismn":null,"issn":null,"series":null,"pages":276,"publication_year":2019,"publication_place":"Αθήνα","price":"15.0","price_updated_at":"2019-03-14","cover_type":null,"availability":"Κυκλοφορεί - Εκκρεμής εγγραφή","format":"Βιβλίο","original_language":null,"original_title":"Θυελλώδης διάσωση της αγάπης","publisher_id":307,"extra":null,"biblionet_id":235383,"url":"https://v2.bibliography.gr/books/stormy-rescue-of-love.json"},{"id":59945,"title":"Iconostasis of Anonymous Saints","subtitle":"Sealed with a Smile: Less and Less Questions: Ariostos Refuses to Become a Saint","description":"This work of Ritsos, is it a novel with an emphatic question-mark added by the poet himself? 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How are the established Orthodox saints, traditionally decorating the panels near the altar, how are they replaced by anonymous human beings? - everyday people from Ritsos' neighbourhood; members of his large family and simple inhabitants of Monemvasia; unassuming fellow-prisoners on exile islands and a closely-knit band of friends.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAll these \"anonymities\" are skillfully counterpointed with the hero - Ion - and Ion's alter ego - Ariostos - and woven into a fascinating tapestry of reminiscences and reflections, vivid memories from childhood and adolescence, speculations on Greece's recent history, confessions bordering on psycho-analytical introspection, and, occasionally, surrealistic dreams. 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