Lit in Translation

Aegean Tales

L'autre

Pan Bouyoucas (born 1946)

Translated by Sheila Fischman

English editions

In English

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Pantéli, a fishing village on the Greek island of Leros, 1943. Thomas wants to become a sailor, but at sixteen he loses a leg to a shell fired as the British try to drive Mussolini's forces off the island. His dream vanishes, and so does the love of Olga. He becomes a mender of nets, nicknamed Tripodis, the three-legged man, a curiosity for tourists, consoled now and then by the keeper of a bar. Then one day a sailboat anchors in the bay, and the man who steps ashore looks like him and carries his name: a rival who seems to claim the life Thomas never had.

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About the book

Form
Novel
Length
101 pages in the original
Genres
War (assigned by AI)
Set in
Greece, 1943 onward
First published
2001 by Les Allusifs
Author's age
55 when first published
ISBN

9782922868029 (original)

9781897151204 (Cormorant Books, Canada)

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