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Averoff

Portrait of the Politician as a Young Man

Produktform: Buch / Einband - flex.(Paperback)

This book chronicles Greece’s turbulent history during the first half of the twentieth century as it both shaped and was shaped by one of its most distinguished political figures, Evangelos Averoff-Tossizza. Written by his daughter, the book is part historical biography, part coming-of-age novel, part memoir. It draws extensively on Averoff’s prolific literary oeuvre and personal archives, while weaving seamlessly back and forth from past to present in a voice all its own. We follow the protagonist from his birth in 1908, when Greece was still a monarchy reeling from the losses of the Greco-Turkish War of 1897, to the late 1940s and the Civil War, by which time Averoff had become a seasoned, cosmopolitan politician. In the interim, as the protagonist contends with the vagaries of history and a captivating cast of supporting characters, we see him grow into a living, breathing person, endowed with the complexity and humour so often denied the one-dimensional figures of official history. A labour of love and a meditation on loss and transcendence, the book celebrates the raw pain, passion, ambition, love and, at times, sheer luck that shape who we are.weiterlesen

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Sprache(n): Englisch

ISBN: 978-1-78874-122-4 / 978-1788741224 / 9781788741224

Verlag: Peter Lang Ltd. International Academic Publishers

Erscheinungsdatum: 28.02.2018

Seiten: 408

Auflage: 1

Reihe herausgegeben von Andrew Louth, David Ricks
Übersetzt von Patricia Barbeito
Autor(en): Tatiana Averoff

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