A Prisoner of War's Story
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A Prisoner of War's Story by Stratis Doukas
Smyrna, September 1922: A young Anatolian Greek is taken prisoner at the end of the Greek-Turkish war and marched off into the interior. He recounts his escape and heart-stopping journey through the familiar landscape of his lost homeland, where his ability to pass as a Muslim Turk reveals the common culture shared by the different communities of the crumbling Ottoman empire. A classic tale of survival in a time of nationalist conflict, A Prisoner of War's Story is a beautifully crafted and pithy narrative. Affirming the common humanity of peoples, it earns its place among Europe's finest anti-war literature of the post-world war I period.
"An arresting snapshot of the moment when the iron grid of nation states clanged down on one part of the BalkansThe translation is clean, accurate and a pleasure to read." -- Maria Margonis, Times Literary Supplement
"A Prisoner of Wars Story is a book of subtle and effective artistry, a history that captures the reader with ease and stays long within the memory." -- Kevin McGrath, Harvard review
"Doukas s powerful tale taps into the modernist tradition: spare, hard-nosed, and devoid of heroic passions in describing a mans determination to survive." -- Tony Maniaty, The Australian
"A Prisoner of Wars Story is a book of subtle and effective artistry, a history that captures the reader with ease and stays long within the memory." -- Kevin McGrath, Harvard review
"Doukas s powerful tale taps into the modernist tradition: spare, hard-nosed, and devoid of heroic passions in describing a mans determination to survive." -- Tony Maniaty, The Australian
Stratis Doukas was born in 1895 on Moschonisi island,off the Asia Minor coast, and settled in Greece as a refugee after the GreekTurkish war (191922). He served as a soldier in the Greek army in the First world war and in the ill-fated Asia Minor campaign. A Prisoner of Wars Story, published in 1929, established his reputation as an innovative writer of a new unadorned first-person narrative style. His writing encompasses lyrical prose, arts journalism and studies of important figures in the visual arts, including a nearly biography of the sculptor Υannoulis Chalepas. Doukas died in Athens in 1983.
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| ISBN 13 | 9786185369668 |
| ISBN 10 | 6185369664 |
| Title | A Prisoner of War's Story |
| Author | Stratis Doukas |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Aiora Press |
| Year published | 2022-10-15 |
| Number of pages | 112 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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