Η οδύσσεια των διδύμων

Late in 1949 Kastrinos, a veteran of the left-wing resistance and of the communist side in the Civil War, has landed in Tashkent with his family as an exile. Over the following decades he sees Stalin give way to Khrushchev, Moscow meddle in the affairs of the Greek Communist Party and its leader Zachariadis ousted. Standing by Zachariadis costs Kastrinos years in Soviet labour camps, and he lives on to see the Soviet state begin to crumble. The story ranges from the Grammos mountains and Piraeus to Uzbekistan, Moscow and Siberia, blending history and invention.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

935 pages in the original

Genres

Historical, Politics, Migration (assigned by AI)

Set in

Uzbekistan, Russia, from 1949

First published

2009 by Καστανιώτης

Author's age

85 when first published

ISBN

9789600349764 (original)