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The events of the story are all true, but they read like a strange fairy-tale. The euphoria of the first days of the Liberation, the slow awakening of the inmates to the possibilities of love and normalcy, the beauty of the spring landscape in which the lovers walk hand-in-hand make the atrocities that preceded them seem inconceivable. And like the lovers who walk through the camp exorcizing its demons, we are spared no detail of the savagery perpetuated in the years of its operation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKambanellis' account is based on the notes he made just after he was liberated. In the twenty years that passed between his experiences and the publishing of his memoir in Greek, he became a mature writer and Greece's best known playwright. Like Primo Levi's writing about his experience in Auschwitz, Kambanellis' Mauthausen is both a literary masterpiece and a testament to the extraordinary resilience of the human spirit.","image":"http://www.biblionet.gr/images/covers/b9357.jpg","isbn":"960-04-0979-X","isbn13":"978-960-04-0979-6","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":360,"publication_year":1995,"publication_place":"Αθήνα","price":"14.0","price_updated_at":"2010-07-28","cover_type":"Μαλακό εξώφυλλο","availability":"Κυκλοφορεί","format":"Βιβλίο","original_language":null,"original_title":null,"publisher_id":10,"extra":null,"biblionet_id":9357,"url":"https://v2.bibliography.gr/books/mauthausen.json"},{"id":8953,"title":"Good Friday Vigil","subtitle":null,"description":"The protagonist in each of these stories is a solitary individual, alienated from society, haunted Dy memurira, fascinated by the disgusting, obsessed with the relationship between love and death, and fetishistically attached to certain objects that bear the traces of traumatic experiences. Ioannou brilliantly highlights the discrepancy between intimate acts of sex and violence, and the way people pretend in public that life can be lived withoutphysicality.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \"Good Friday Vigil\"- his last book of stories before his untimely death in 1985 - Ioannou departs from the conversational tone of his earlier work and develops an intricate style whose wanderings evoke the associative meanderings of the memory.\u003cbr\u003e","image":"http://www.biblionet.gr/images/covers/b9343.jpg","isbn":"960-04-0638-3","isbn13":"978-960-04-0638-2","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":126,"publication_year":1995,"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":null,"publisher_id":10,"extra":null,"biblionet_id":9343,"url":"https://v2.bibliography.gr/books/good-friday-vigil.json"},{"id":8968,"title":"The Courtyard","subtitle":null,"description":"Andreas Franghias' novel \"The Courtyard\" gives us a picture of Athens not found in the guidebooks. Set in the ruins of post-World War II Greece, the story revolves around the inhabitants of a single courtyard in one of the city's poorer neighborhoods. Officially, the civil war has been over for years, but its devastating effects continue to haunt the survivors as, driven by fear, hunger and greed, they try to wrangle a way out of their poverty and pent-up lives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe follow them as they scheme and pursue their dreams through the backstreets of Monastiraki and the coffeehouses of Omonia Square. There is Eftihis, a street-peddler who dreams of making it big on money from an extorted dowry. There is Lucia, the wife of a country school-teacher who returns to look for a past that no longer exists. There is Andonis, one-time resistance fighter, now small-time operator. And there is Angelos, a political fugitive on the run from himself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The Courtyard\", tells their stories with humor and drama. It is the portrait of a city rebuilding and reshaping itself; of a society torn out at the roots, suspended between the uncertainties of its future and the nightmares of its past.","image":"http://www.biblionet.gr/images/covers/b9358.jpg","isbn":"960-04-0914-5","isbn13":"978-960-04-0914-7","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":448,"publication_year":1995,"publication_place":"Αθήνα","price":"15.0","price_updated_at":"2010-07-28","cover_type":"Μαλακό εξώφυλλο","availability":"Κυκλοφορεί","format":"Βιβλίο","original_language":null,"original_title":"Η καγκελόπορτα","publisher_id":10,"extra":null,"biblionet_id":9358,"url":"https://v2.bibliography.gr/books/the-courtyard.json"},{"id":8970,"title":"Three Summers","subtitle":null,"description":"[...]Three Summers is the story of three sisters growing up in Greece; their first loves, lies, and secrets; their shared childhood exrperiences and their gradual growing apart. Maria, is the oldest, is strong, sensual, keenly aware of society's expectations. Infanta is beautiful, fiercely proud, aloof. Katerina is spirited, indipendent, off in a dream world of her own. There is also the mysterious Polish grandmother, the wily Camptain Andreas, the self-involved Laoura Parigori... Katerina tells the story of these intertwined lives with imagination, humor, deep tenderness, and a certain nostalgia. \"Three summers\" is a romance with nature, with our planet. Is the declaration of a young girl in love with life itself. 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Starting wtith the narrator, who has doubts about his own indetity and even the reality of his thoughts and memories, the contagion spreads to other characters and to the narrator itself. The hero's odyssey is a decent into hell in which reality becomes a snare trapping the wanderer in the state of absolute clandestinity; finally it reaches the very frontiers of paranoia to refect starkly all the incoherence and derisiveness of the late twentieth century. 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I am a foul-mouthed and repellent daughter desperately in need of a man. Sad creatures. Simple needs. Mr. Dimitriou conjures us into existence in the space of a few lines, and we live, poised between hope and its extinction, for a few brief pages in the harsh world of his pared down prose. Sad creatures, dumb creatures: our spokesman ultimately is a dead or dying dog... woof, woof, dear Lord.","image":"http://www.biblionet.gr/images/covers/b19092.jpg","isbn":"960-04-0913-7","isbn13":"978-960-04-0913-0","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":111,"publication_year":1995,"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":"Ντιάλιθ' ιμ Χριστάκη","publisher_id":10,"extra":null,"biblionet_id":19092,"url":"https://v2.bibliography.gr/books/woof-dear-lord.json"}]