Translation of Modern Greek Literature
Andreas Karayan: The True Story
In the age of David Hockney, Derek Jarman, Kenneth Anger and Andy Warhol, when bisexuality was at first radical and then trendy, a young man is faced with the ambiguity of sexual roles… we are immersed in cosmopolitan Cyprus, decadent Alexandria, Berlin, London and Athens during the early seventies. These new artefacts by the renowned C ...
Miltiades Hatzopoulos: The Marches of the Levant
In the third volume of Miltiades Hatzopoulos’ trilogy, Dimitri returns to the newly ‘independent’ British colony of Cyprus in 1968. Partition has begun, ending the age-old amity with the Turkish Cypriots. The struggle for a union with Greece has faded. Personal wealth and social advancement are key. Politics has turned divisive. ...
Miltiades Hatzopoulos: From Beyond the Sea
The second volume in Miltiades Hatzopoulos' trilogy has Dimitri arriving in Paris in 1956, a stranger in a foreign land, bewildered and bemused, but soon swept up in the reality of a country he has so far learned about only through his reading of French medieval literature. A sophisticated French family welcome him into their confusingly ...
Christina Zempi: Stone and Honey
Stone and Honey is a novel redolent of modern Greece, by a local author who is truly alive to all the scents, the flavours, and winds of the Mani, a wild and beautiful landscape with a history of heroism, brutality and exile, and strong traditions in music and song.
Miltiades Hatzopoulos: Betwixt and Between
Betwixt and Between is the first volume in Hatzopoulos's trilogy, set in Cyprus in the 50s, during the violent period of struggle against British Colonial rule. It recounts the transition of a Greek boy to manhood in a world of divided loyalties, during the time of Makarios, EOKA nationalism, and late colonial revanchism. Although the tra ...
This novel has been described by its author as a patchwork made up of remnants, or an embroidery from left over threads. It is a woman's work, pieced together from half-remembered and rediscovered scraps of history: the history of Greek Independence from Turkey and the attendant war, exile and loss in the Aegina, Corfu, Athens and Constan ...