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Zigzag Through the Bitter-Orange Trees

Ζιγκ-ζαγκ στις νεραντζιές · Zigk-zagk stis nerantzies

Ersi Sotiropoulos (Έρση Σωτηροπούλου, born 1953)

Translated by Peter Green

English editions

In English
  • Zigzag Through the Bitter-Orange Trees

    Interlink Books · United States · 2007 · 234 pages

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Nina is in revolt, Lia is dying, Sotiris is in love, Sid lives on the edge, and a black bird can talk. At first each goes a separate way, like spokes from a hub. But as they chase love and meet disappointment, resignation and treachery, their paths cross and the fragments fit together into a single, everyday story that is comic and sad, brutal and gentle by turns.

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About the book

Form
Novel
Length
262 pages in the original
Genres
Love (assigned by AI)
First published
1999 by Κέδρος
Author's age
46 when first published
ISBN

9789600417050 (original)

9781566566612 (Interlink Books, United States)