Book description
Rural Greece during German occupation and the civil war. Meskaris,
a young mother whose husband is away fighting, takes as her lover a
shy Italian soldier, so as to better feed and clothe her children.
With victory, the villagers will exact a terrible revenge.
Pavlos Matesis is a prize-winning Greek playwright, novelist and
translator. His fiction includes The Ancient of the Days, Always Well
and Sylvan Substances. His novel The Daughter, an international
bestseller in nine languages, has sold over 150,000 in Greece alone. It
is now a major film by Emir Kusturica. Pavlos Matesis lives in Athens.
