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North of Ithaka, a granddaughter returns to Greece and discovers her roots, Eleni N. Gage

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North of Ithaka, a granddaughter returns to Greece and discovers her roots, Eleni N. Gage

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

North of Ithaka

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Eleni N. Gage

Sub title

a granddaughter returns to Greece and discovers her roots

Summary

Leaving behind a sparkling social life and a successful journalism career, Eleni Gage moved from New York City to the remote Greek village of Lia. Lia is the same village where her father was born and her grandmother murdered, and which her father, Nicholas Gage, made famous twenty years ago with his international bestseller Eleni. Her four aunts (the diminutive but formidable thitsas) warned Eleni that she'd get killed by Albanians and eaten by wolves if she moved to Lia, invoking the curse her grandmother placed on any of her descendants who returned to Greece. But Eleni was determined to rebuild the ruins of her grandparents' house and to come to terms with her family's tragic history. Along the way, she learned to dodge bad omens and to battle the scorpions on her pillow and the shadows in her heart. She also came to understand that Greece and its memories were not only dark and death-filled, and that memories of the dead can bring new life to the present. Part travel memoir and part family saga, North of Ithaka is, above all, a journey home

Target audience

adult

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