The Book of Katerina, The by Auguste Corteau
In this acclaimed Greek novel, Auguste Corteau imagines his own mother's inner life, observing with wit and earthy humour the saga of her extended family's ups and downs in the city of Thessaloniki over three generations. -- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru
The Book of Katerina is a gleefully sardonic novel about illness and family, and how we can never quite cure ourselves of eitherGLEN JAMES BROWN
CORTEAU is the pen name of Petros Hatzopoulos. Born in Thessaloniki in 1979, he has lived for the last decade in Athens. He is the author of fourteen novels as well as plays, novellas and short story collections and is a recipient of the Greek National Book Award for Children’s Literature. He has also translated more than thirty worksof literature into Greek, from Nabokov’s Lolita to Cormac McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men. Corteau, an LGBT activist, in 2016 signed a Cohabitation Pact with his partner, the first same-sex couple to do so after the law was passed in the Greek Parliament.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781912681266 |
| ISBN 10 | 1912681269 |
| Title | The Book of Katerina, The |
| Author | Auguste Corteau |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Parthian Books |
| Year published | 2021-06-01 |
| Number of pages | 170 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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