With vivid language and powerful imagery, Thanassis Valtinos addresses the dislocation of three generations of Greeks facing profound political, social, and cultural change. Disillusioned urbanites and common farmers alike are affected by the coups and political pressures of modern Greece yet at the same time are moved by the primitive Greece of visions, ghostly apparitions, and saints' shrines in olive groves. Valtinos's gift for irony and poignant understatement makes this novella and collection of short stories a powerful commentary on past and present-day Greek affairs.
Über die Autorin / über den Autor:Thanassis Valtinos was born in Greece in 1932. A recipient of a Ford Foundation grant and an honorary fellow of the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa, Valtinos has won numerous awards for his innovative work. A member of the International Theater Institute and the former president of the Society of Greek Writers, he continues to write fiction and screenplays and to translate classical Greek drama for the theater. His novel Data from the Decade of the Sixties is also available from Northwestern University Press.
Jane Assimakopoulos, an American writer and translator, lives in Ioannina, Greece.
Stavros Deligiorgis is a professor of comparative literature at the University of Iowa.
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