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Brown, James William, 1942-
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Mourning customs -- Fiction.
Refugees -- Fiction.
Shadow shows -- Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Greece -- Fiction.
Greece -- Fiction.
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Brown, James William, 1942-
Mourning customs -- Fiction.
Refugees -- Fiction.
Shadow shows -- Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Greece -- Fiction.
Greece -- Fiction.
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My
last
lament
/ James William Brown.
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Brown, James William, 1942-
Berkley, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2017.
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FICTION BRO
Subjects
Mourning customs -- Fiction.
Refugees -- Fiction.
Shadow shows -- Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Greece -- Fiction.
Greece -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9780399583407 (hc.)
Description:
341 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-339).
Summary:
"Aliki is one of the
last
of her kind, a lamenter who mourns and celebrates the passing of life. She is a part of an evolving Greece, a country moving steadily away from its rural traditions. To capture the fading folk art of lamenting, an American researcher asks Aliki to record her laments, but in response, Aliki sings her own story. It begins in a village in northeast Greece, where Aliki witnesses the occupying Nazi soldiers execute her father for stealing a squash. Taken in by her friend Takis's mother, Aliki is joined by a Jewish refugee and her son, Stelios. When the village is torched and its people massacred, Aliki, Takis and Stelios are able to excape just as the war is ending. Fleeing across the chaotic landscape of a postwar Greece, the three become a makeshift family. They're bound by friendship and grief, but torn apart by betrayal, madness and heartbreak. Through Aliki's powerful voice, an unforgettable one that blends light and dark with wry humor, this book delivers a fitting eulogy to a way of life and provides a vivid portrait of a timeless Greek woman whose story of love and loss is eternal."
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Historical fiction.
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