Lit in Translation

Δυο φορές Έλληνας

Dyo fores Ellinas

“Twice a Greek” (title translated by AI)

Menis Koumandareas (Μένης Κουμανταρέας, born 1931)

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Over four decades, from 1949 to 1990, two families move through an Athens of print shops, homes and streets. A proofreader, his wife and a young man turning into a writer share the stage with a Greece–Turkey football match, an Aristophanes play staged on Makronisos and a pistol from the occupation years that turns up at a party.

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About the book

Form
Novel
Length
757 pages in the original
Genres
Family (assigned by AI)
Set in
Greece, 1949–1990
First published
2001 by Κέδρος
Author's age
70 when first published
ISBN

9789600417616 (original)