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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":18548,"title":"The Builders","subtitle":null,"description":"Giorgos Heimonas was born in Kavala in 1938 and died in Paris in 2000. He studied psychiatry at the University of Athens and the University of Paris, and he lived in both Athens and Paris; he has worked as a professor, physician, and author. His mysterious and moving narratives made him one of Greece's most renowned contemporary writers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo enter into a Heimonas text is not so much to read the written word as to experience it. His characters repeatedly suggest that the word of their experience flows through the body toward the lips but never reaches speech. Accordingly, Heimonas creates a metamorphosed language and a genre which are neither poetry nor fiction in a conventional sense yet share certain qualities of each. In \"The builders\" the protagonist is the herald of a new order of speech and feeling. The text suggests that we cease, as it were, to listen to experience with our neighbour's ear; rather we should feel the world through a sort of language of the nerves. Thus, the narrative does not articulate an idea or situation so much as pulse with sensations of pain, joy, discovery. The feeling of existence becomes its meaning. In Heimonas' words, the world becomes an image and humanity itself the message.\u003cbr\u003e","image":"http://www.biblionet.gr/images/covers/b19160.jpg","isbn":"960-04-0485-2","isbn13":"978-960-04-0485-2","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":63,"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":"Οι Χτίστες","publisher_id":10,"extra":null,"biblionet_id":19160,"url":"https://v2.bibliography.gr/books/the-builders.json"},{"id":18547,"title":"Koula","subtitle":null,"description":"A \"brief encounter\" on the Athenian Underground brings together two people, Koula and Dimitris, from entirely different backgrounds and ages. For a few weeks they manage to break loose from their respective shackles and meet in a kind of no man's land of passionate discovery. The couple's emotional fluctuations are charted with remarkable precision and subtlety, in a low-key tone that fully captures the muted drama of their meeting and parting.","image":"http://www.biblionet.gr/images/covers/b19159.jpg","isbn":"960-04-0484-4","isbn13":"978-960-04-0484-5","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":79,"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":"Η κυρία Κούλα","publisher_id":10,"extra":null,"biblionet_id":19159,"url":"https://v2.bibliography.gr/books/koula.json"},{"id":18445,"title":"Fool's Gold","subtitle":null,"description":"My father, thunderstruck, was demanding to know: \"But when? This is madness! Impossible.\" When ar fasf\u003cbr\u003ehe replaces the receiver in a grand Shakespearean manner - my father has it in the blood - he broke the news to us: Dictatorship. My mother cried out and collapsed in a heap on the sofa. Calliope the maid, as part of her duties, always manages to sense the right moment for a restorative coffee, and set off for the kitchen. My father repeated: \"Dictatorship, do you hear!\" I stared at him, shaking off sleep.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is how Myrsini Panayotou, an Athenian girl about to start university, learns of the coup d'etat that brought to power the infamous dictatorship of the \"Colonels\" in her country in the early hours of Friday, 21st April 1967. The child of a well-to-do family, Myrsini enthusiastically joins the underground resistance, making common cause with a varied cast of characters from backgrounds very different from her own. After an early failed love affair, she gets engaged to George, a political prisoner, only to find her human instincts increasingly difficult to reconcile with her idealistic philosophy once he is released. The story moves towards its climax as Myrsini becomes involved in the bloody events of 17th November 1973, when tanks were used to evict students from the Athens Polytechnic. At the same time the fortunes of Myrsini's family form a backdrop at once touching and bizarre to an impressionable girl's unflinching search for a true identity, both for herself and for her country.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Fool's Gold\" is a sparkling novel by a talented writer, one of the foremost of a generation which grew up in the shadow of the events Maro Douka describes.\u003cbr\u003e","image":"http://www.biblionet.gr/images/covers/b19057.jpg","isbn":"960-04-0481-X","isbn13":"978-960-04-0481-4","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":317,"publication_year":1991,"publication_place":"Αθήνα","price":"12.0","price_updated_at":"2010-07-28","cover_type":"Μαλακό εξώφυλλο","availability":"Κυκλοφορεί","format":"Βιβλίο","original_language":null,"original_title":"Η αρχαία σκουριά","publisher_id":10,"extra":null,"biblionet_id":19057,"url":"https://v2.bibliography.gr/books/fools-gold.json"}]