By Sofia Nikolaidou, Karen Emmerich
ISBN-10: 1612193846
ISBN-13: 9781612193847
Author note: Translated by means of Karen Emmerich
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b]From a big new Greek author, by no means sooner than translated--a wide-ranging, muck-raking, superbly written novel in regards to the unsolved homicide of an American journalist in Greece within the forties[/b]
In 1948, the physique of an American journalist is located floating within the bay off Thessaloniki. A Greek journalist is attempted and convicted for the homicide . . . but if he's published twelve years later, he claims his confession was once the results of torture.
Flash ahead to trendy day Greece, the place a tender, disaffected highschool pupil is given an project for a college undertaking: locate the truth.
Based at the genuine tale of famed CBS reporter George Polk--journalism's prestigious Polk Awards have been named after him--who was once investigating embezzlement of U.S. relief via the right-wing Greek govt, Nikolaidou's novel is a sweeping saga that brings jointly the turbulent Greece of the post-war interval with the present period, the place the rustic unearths itself dealing with turbulent political occasions as soon as again.
Told via key avid gamers within the story--the speeding journalist's Greek widow; the mummy and sisters of the convicted guy; the brutal Thessaloniki leader of Police; a U.S. international workplace investigator--it is the fashionable day scholar who's so much affecting of all of them, as he questions fact, justice and sacrifice . . . and the way the prior is usually with us.
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