Prisoner of War's Story

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

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Beskrivning

Smyrna, September 1922: A young Anatolian Greek is taken prisoner at the end of the Greek-Turkish war and marched off into the interior. He recounts his escape and heart-stopping journey through the familiar landscape of his lost homeland, where his ability to pass as a Muslim Turk reveals the common culture shared by the different communities of the crumbling Ottoman empire. A classic tale of survival in a time of nationalist conflict, A Prisoner of War's Story is a beautifully crafted and pithy narrative. Affirming the common humanity of peoples, it earns its place among Europe's finest anti-war literature of the post-world war I period.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2022-10-15
Mått:135 x 205 x 13 mm
Vikt:134 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:112
Förlag:Aiora Press
ISBN:9786185369668

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Stratis Doukas was born in 1895 on Moschonisi island,off the Asia Minor coast, and settled in Greece as a refugee after the GreekTurkish war (191922). He served as a soldier in the Greek army in the First world war and in the ill-fated Asia Minor campaign. A Prisoner of Wars Story, published in 1929, established his reputation as an innovative writer of a new unadorned first-person narrative style. His writing encompasses lyrical prose, arts journalism and studies of important figures in the visual arts, including a nearly biography of the sculptor Υannoulis Chalepas. Doukas died in Athens in 1983.

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"An arresting snapshot of the moment when the iron grid of nation states clanged down on one part of the Balkans. The translation is clean, accurate and a pleasure to read." -- Maria Margonis, Times Literary Supplement