Gathers stories from modern Greek writers such as Eva Vlami, George Seferis, and Odysseus Elytis. Discover Greece -- a country that has inspired centuries of travel -- through its best modern writers. Against a superb landscape of mountains, beaches, villages, cities, and ruins, all bathed in the rich light of the Mediterranean, these twenty-four stories draw from the long oral and written evolution of the Greek literary tradition. Incorporating myths, the meditative tranquillity of the region, and a past full of struggle and civil war, these stories are arranged by geographical region for the traveller and provide an enriching odyssey through the Greek landscape and mind.
