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Karafilly,Irena [Friedman] : He Asymbibasti Mousa (The Reluctant Muse)

Ekdoseis Psychogios, Athens, 2008

ISBN 9789604534289

" In the early 1930s, a Greek girl named Calliope Adham comes of age on Lesbos, born into a turbulent century in which the Aegean island absorbs thousands of Anatolian refugees, is occupied by the Germans, ravaged by civil war, and oppressed by a ruthless dictatorship. This is the background to THE RELUCTANT MUSE, a historic novel depicting the tumultuous life of a passionate Greek protofeminist. The daughter of a local headmaster, Calliope Adham grows upto be a schoolmistress and village iconoclast. When the Germans take over the island, she is engaged as their liaison officer, a position which she accepts reluctantly, but which is destined to play a pivotal role in shaping her entire life. The story deals with love, war, and an extraordinary woman's revolt against social conventions, but it is as much a portrait of an evolving Greek village as of the brilliant woman at its center.". Illustr.: Vassiliki Kokkinou. Book. Book Condition: New Book from Greece. Binding: French Wraps

1st Greek Ed.

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