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Stefanos was a romantic idealist when he met Persa; she believed in him and followed him, and then came the disillusionment, the frustrations and the anger of an ordinary lower-middle-class Greek marriage. The couple keeps going until reality strikes: their daughter is held in pre-trial detention because the young man she loves shot a policeman, and she refuses to testify against him, ready to be convicted in the name of love. The story is told in alternating monologues, as parents, daughter and those around them try to understand causes and motives, and to protect the people they love with hard truths or with evasions.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

243 pages in the original

Genres

Family, Politics (assigned by AI)

Set in

Greece

First published

2012 by Πόλις

Author's age

65 when first published

ISBN

9789604353606 (original)