[{"id":178470,"title":"The Murderess","subtitle":"A Social Tale","description":"The \"Murderess\" has been regarded as Alexandros Papadiamandis’s finest work. Set on his native island of Skiathos it tells the story of Hadoula, a widow with grown-up children, who has convinced herself that it is better little girls should leave this life when young so that they and their parents should not suffer the trials that inevitably would be inflicted on them by an inequitable society. In the throes of this misguided compassion she first murders her own granddaughter and afterwards finds herself set on a course she is unable to stop despite the promptings of her conscience and her awareness of the consequences.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePapadiamandis charts this course and the events in her life that preceded it, and against a background of the island’s verdant and untrodden places and the living presence of the Church he explores the particular quality evil has of disguising itself as good, but without ever passing judgement on the murderess herself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLong considered one of Greece's most important writers, Papadiamandis's reflections on and observations of modern Greek life define the Greek experience in a way unmatched by any of his contemporaries.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis new translation of \"The Murderess\" has been undertaken and published to mark the centenary of Papadiamandis's death.","image":"http://www.biblionet.gr/images/covers/b181595.jpg","isbn":"978-960-7120-28-1","isbn13":"978-960-7120-28-1","ismn":null,"issn":null,"series":{"id":9761,"name":"Romiosyni Series","books_count":5,"tsearch_vector":"'romiosyni' 'series'","created_at":"2017-04-13T02:21:03.425+03:00","updated_at":"2017-04-13T02:21:03.425+03:00"},"pages":290,"publication_year":2011,"publication_place":"Λίμνη Ευβοίας","price":"10.0","price_updated_at":"2012-07-23","cover_type":"Μαλακό εξώφυλλο","availability":"Κυκλοφορεί - Εκκρεμής εγγραφή","format":"Βιβλίο","original_language":null,"original_title":"Η φόνισσα","publisher_id":1194,"extra":null,"biblionet_id":181595,"url":"https://v2.bibliography.gr/books/the-murderess.json"},{"id":218415,"title":"Loxandra","subtitle":null,"description":"\"Loxandra\" is the story of a Greek family living in Constantinople (Istanbul) from the mid-18th century up to the beginning of the First World War. It is not biographical as such, and many of the characters are fictional. Others, including the main character of Loxandra, are real. Constantinople was the author's home during the first years of her life and in her book she conveys the historical events, the customs, the spirit of those times when life for the Greeks of Constantinople was relatively untroubled. The real Loxandra was brought up in the Anatolian tradition of love of good food; culinary delights flowed from her hands and her kitchen as from the horn of plenty, and her generosity and enthusiasm for life and food was not confined to her family but spilled over to whomsoever she had contact with.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Greek edition of Loxandra , first published in 1963, has been perhaps the most acclaimed and best-selling popular publication in Greece of the 20th century and remains continuously in print.","image":null,"isbn":"978-960-7120-39-7","isbn13":"978-960-7120-39-7","ismn":null,"issn":null,"series":{"id":12826,"name":"Romiosyni","books_count":1,"tsearch_vector":"'romiosyni'","created_at":"2017-10-11T06:00:27.896+03:00","updated_at":"2017-10-11T06:00:27.896+03:00"},"pages":266,"publication_year":2017,"publication_place":"Λίμνη Ευβοίας","price":"14.0","price_updated_at":"2017-10-10","cover_type":"Μαλακό εξώφυλλο","availability":"Κυκλοφορεί - Εκκρεμής εγγραφή","format":"Βιβλίο","original_language":null,"original_title":"Λωξάντρα","publisher_id":1194,"extra":null,"biblionet_id":221634,"url":"https://v2.bibliography.gr/books/loxandra.json"}]