Lit in Translation

Δυο φορές αθώα

Dyo fores athoa

“Twice Innocent” (title translated by AI)

Elena Houzouri (Έλενα Χουζούρη)

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What do the two lives of Veronika K. hide? Born in Tashkent to Greek parents who ended up there after the Civil War, she grew up with a secret, a former partisan father and a great love for Iosif B., and came to Greece, the homeland she had been taught to cherish, in 1989, the year her world began to collapse. In 2011 the fifty-eight-year-old answers the questions of a young journalist researching the fate of the children of repatriated political refugees. It is the journalist's last interview before her paper closes and she too must emigrate, and along the way she uncovers an unexpected side of Veronika's life.

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About the book

Form
Novel
Length
230 pages in the original
Genres
Migration, Historical, Politics (assigned by AI)
Set in
Uzbekistan, Greece, 2011
First published
2013 by Κέδρος
ISBN

9789600443660 (original)