Author: Stratis Haviaras
Year: 1984
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Culture: Greece
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9780140080841
0140080848 |
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How children are affected by war, how they survive - if they survive - and how their childhood is stolen from them are the themes of this novel.
Set in Greece in the late 1940's, a country devastated first by Nazi occupation and now civil war, the story is narrated by twelve-year-old Panagis and tells how a small band of children, orphaned scavengers, leave their village in an attempt to escape to Albania.
Haviaras, writing here in English, has insisted that this novel is not exactly an autobiography, but calls it 'an autobiography of my generation'.
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