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Niki

By: Christos Chomenidis, Patricia Felisa Barbeito - translator
Narrated by: Katherine Anderson
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A resilient Greek woman recounts her and her family's extraordinary story at the end of her life, marked by the great historical events of the twentieth century.

Born in 1938, Niki, the daughter of the deputy secretary general of the Greek Communist Party, is swept up in turmoil before her first birthday: her parents are arrested, and she joins her mother in exile on an island near Santorini. Growing up, she experiences the Italian and German invasion, the Nazi occupation, and the civil war that came after, often caught between her socialist values and those of the right-wing establishment, to which half her relatives belong.

Through her memories and the stories of her family, with roots on both coasts of the Aegean Sea, Niki also tells the history of Greece and Asia Minor from the late nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth. Her remarkable tales, full of humor and verve in spite of hardship, are populated by working-class heroes, privileged elites, daring revolutionaries, and free-spirited bohemians.

©2014 S. Patakis SA and Christos Chomenidis, English translation copyright 2023 by Patricia Felisa Barbeito (P)2023 Tantor
Historical Fiction Women's Fiction World Literature Fiction Witty War Greece

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