Ερημιά στο βλέμμα τους

Greeks who left for America in the early 1960s and Albanians who came to Greece in the 1990s follow the same path, while others who never left home are exiles inside themselves. Giannoula Sorou, from Spartia in the mountains of the Peloponnese, has lived in a distant suburb of Chicago since 1964. Just before the Olympics she comes back for a short stay, after forty years, to a Greece she no longer recognizes, determined to settle old accounts with the living and the dead. In her village she meets Ben and Zamira, Albanian migrants, and their story of exile shows her the outline of her own hard life, its hopes and its letdowns.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

285 pages in the original

Genres

Migration, Family (assigned by AI)

Set in

Greece, United States, 1960s–2004

First published

2008 by Μεταίχμιο

Author's age

58 when first published

ISBN

9789604553525 (original)