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I chose this book to get a different view of Greece from the beautiful beaches and whitewashed sundrenched houses. The stories are set during the fraught economic failures, and the effects of those on a number of people in the working class port area near Athens. Some of the people we meet include a couple losing their home, a woman who's lover betrays her and leaves with her hard-come-by savings, a couple of workers at a struggling ice plant who.hold dreams in their hands that dissolve like the
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These short stories transported me to Greece during their economic crisis. The translation seems excellent to me, because the stories have a beautiful flow to them. I felt a sense of desperation as I read it, as the protagonists seemed to have so few options to make it. I learned a few things about Greek history including the violent suppression of student strikes in the early 1970s and the also violent movement that took their name- November 17- from the incident.
