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Three Summers (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781681373300)
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xA tender story about three sisters coming of age in Greece over the course of three summers, now available after being out of print for over twenty years.
Three Summers is the story of three sisters growing up in the countryside near Athens before the Second World War. Living in a big old house surrounded by a beautiful garden are Maria, the oldest sister, as sexually bold as she is eager to settle down and have a family of her own; beautiful but distant Infanta; and dreamy and rebellious Katerina, through whose eyes the story is mostly observed. Over three summers, the girls share and keep secrets, fall in and out of love, try to figure out their parents and other members of the tribe of adults, take note of the weird ways of friends and neighbors, worry about and wonder who they are. Karen Van Dyck's translation captures all the light and warmth of this modern Greek classic.
Author: Margarita Liberaki
ISBN-10: 1681373300
ISBN-13: 9781681373300
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Language: English
Published: 07/09/2019
Pages: 264
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.00w x 0.70d
Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 03/01/2019
Publishers Weekly 05/06/2019
Three Summers is the story of three sisters growing up in the countryside near Athens before the Second World War. Living in a big old house surrounded by a beautiful garden are Maria, the oldest sister, as sexually bold as she is eager to settle down and have a family of her own; beautiful but distant Infanta; and dreamy and rebellious Katerina, through whose eyes the story is mostly observed. Over three summers, the girls share and keep secrets, fall in and out of love, try to figure out their parents and other members of the tribe of adults, take note of the weird ways of friends and neighbors, worry about and wonder who they are. Karen Van Dyck's translation captures all the light and warmth of this modern Greek classic.
Author: Margarita Liberaki
ISBN-10: 1681373300
ISBN-13: 9781681373300
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Language: English
Published: 07/09/2019
Pages: 264
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.00w x 0.70d
Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 03/01/2019
Publishers Weekly 05/06/2019
By Margarita Liberaki
xMargarita Liberaki (1919-2001) was born in Athens and raised by her grandparents, who ran the Fexis bookstore and publishing house. In addition to Three Summers, she wrote two further novels, The Other Alexander (1950) and The Mystery (1976); a number of plays, including Candaules' Wife (1955) and The Dana?s (1956), part of a cycle she called Mythical Theater; several screenplays, including Jules Dassin's Phaedra (1962) and Diaspora (1999), about Greek intellectuals in exile in Paris during the junta; and a translation of Treasure Island (2000). Three Summers is now a standard part of Greek and Cypriot public education; it was adapted as a television miniseries in 1995. Karen Van Dyck is the Kimon A. Doukas Professor of Modern Greek Literature at Columbia University. She writes on modern Greek and diaspora literature and on gender and translation. She has edited or co-edited several volumes of poetry, including A Century of Greek Poetry (2004); The Greek Poets: Homer to the Present (2010); and, for NYRB Poets, Austerity Measures: The New Greek Poetry (2017). Her translations have appeared in Brooklyn Rail, Asymptote, and The Baffler.
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