Εμμανουήλ και Αικατερίνη

In this novel the writer looks for who her 'known-unknown' parents really were, as parents usually are: what shaped Emmanouil and Aikaterini before they married, before she knew them, before they clashed violently and were reconciled later, and where they drew the burden of cultures, mentalities and historical outlooks they bequeathed to her. Only now do the dead parents' belongings, their old black-and-white photographs and the family's oral stories answer her questions. She visits the places where they lived in hard times, historic villages of Crete, pre-war Vienna and Bordeaux, Athens and Heraklion, questioning, inventing, understanding and, probably, forgiving.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

416 pages in the original

Genres

Autofiction, Family, Historical (assigned by AI)

Set in

Greece, Austria, France

First published

2022 by Καστανιώτης

Author's age

75 when first published

ISBN

9789600369939 (original)