
Niki
by Christos Chomenidis
Title:
Niki
Author:
Christos Chomenidis
Format:
Paperback
Number of pages:
496 pages
Publisher:
Other Press LLC
ISBN-13:
9781635421972
EAN:
9781635421972
Publication Date:
13/06/2023
Classifications:
Modern and Contemporary (Post c 1945)
Weight (g):
568
Dimensions (mm):
132 x 204 x 28
Publication Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Condition:
New
Description
Born in 1938, Niki, the daughter of the deputy secretary general of the Greek Communist Party, is swept up in turmoil before her first birthday: her parents are arrested, and she joins her mother in exile on an island near Santorini. Growing up, she experiences the Italian and German invasion, the Nazi occupation, and the civil war that came after, often caught between her socialist values and those of the right-wing establishment, to which half her relatives belong. Through her memories and the stories of her family, with roots on both coasts of the Aegean Sea, Niki also tells the history of Greece and Asia Minor from the late nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth. Her extraordinary tales, full of humour and verve in spite of hardship, are populated by working-class heroes, privileged elites, daring revolutionaries, and free-spirited bohemians.










