The Seventh Garment - Eugenia Fakinou

[Luke]

The Seventh Garment, Eugenia Fakinou, translated from Greek by Ed Emery, 1983, Greece, NOVEL

"The first voice is from a tree: "In the old days, the maidens from the distant North would come and we would talk together. Then came the priestesses, clad in white, with their copper gongs, and garlands in their hair. In their white robes, they would lie down and wait and listen for the whispering of my leaves."...The stories of dead men blend with the voices of living women to relate a history of Greece dating back to the 1820s."

(E.B., p. 155)