Two men traveling from England disembark in Greece from the same boat. How their lives will accidentally and frighteningly intersect is the subject of this novel. Kennedy, an Englishman of no fixed address, is looking for a teaching job in what he hopes will be a Greek paradise. An opportunist who f
The Greeks Have a Word for It
โ Scribed by Barry Unsworth
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Year
- 2019;2002
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 134 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1324003812
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โฆ Synopsis
When two men disembark from the same boat in Greece, their lives accidentally and frighteningly intersect.
Kennedy, an opportunist, orchestrates a scam that will have some intended and some thoroughly unintended consequences. For Mitsos, an unresolved family tragedy awakens again, along with his need to avenge his parents' deaths. With utterly convincing characterizations, Barry Unsworth brings us the underbelly of the forge of Western civilization.
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