BOOKS FROM GREECEEleni
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Set in Greece
Male author
Description:
In 1948, as civil war ravaged Greece, children were abducted and sent to communist "camps" inside the Iron Curtain. Eleni Gatzoyiannis, forty-one, defied the traditions of her small village and the terror of the communist insurgents to arrange for the escape of her three daughters and her son, Nicola. For that act, she was imprisoned, tortured, and executed in cold blood. Nicholas Gage joined his father in Massachusetts at the age of nine and grew up to become a top New York Times investigative reporter, honing his skills with one thought in mind: to return to Greece and uncover the one story he cared about most: the story of his mother. Eleni takes you into the heart a village destroyed in the name of ideals and into the soul of a truly heroic woman.
Reviews:
(3 weeks ago) |
29 Nov, 2024
Beautifully written by Nicholas Gage, it's a tribute to his mother and the determination she found within herself to save her children at all costs.
This book has been sitting on my shelf probably since I was a toddler in both the Greek and English versions. My mother always encouraged me to read it to understand Greek history and some of what my own family and Yiayia Eleni went through during that period. Knowing that we had family that lived through WW2 and the civil war in Greece, this book was even more difficult and hard to get through. Once I started though I couldn't put it down and was drawn into the life of Eleni.
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