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Title: |
When the Tree Sings |
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| By (author): |
Stratis Haviaras |
| ISBN10-13: |
1589881680 : 9781589881686 |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Pages: |
232 |
| Weight: |
.202 Kg. |
| Published: |
Paul Dry Books, Inc - October 2022 |
| List Price: |
18.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
Temporarily Out of Stock, more expected soon
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| Set in an impoverished Greece at the cruel time of the German occupation during WWII, When the Tree Sings is a boyâ s eye view of warâ s terrible ways. The young narratorâ s parents are dead, his paternal home destroyed; he lives with his aged grandmother. With barely enough to survive on, they struggle to avoid deathâ and we, the readers, are given the life of the village, filled with its vivid characters: Flisvos, the narratorâ s one-eyed playmate; Lekas the Informer; Uncle Iasson, who is in love with Lekasâ s red-haired mistress; Dando, who dies of fright; a mysterious figure known as the puppeteer. Mundane horrors mix with terrible cruelty and occasional hysterical levity. Our starving narrator is offered a chestnut from the soldiersâ fireâ if he can hold it hot from the coals in his bare hand; a motorcycle engine runs to disguise the sounds of prisoners being tortured; an explosion kills all the fish in the bay and they wash up soaked in kerosene and inedible; the boys spend an afternoon plotting how to hang Grandmotherâ s only drawers from the enemy flagpole; a kitten named November is trained to fly in a basket tied to a paper kite. The wonder of this novel is how engaging the world is to the boy and, so, to readers who accompany him through the pages of this â modern classic.â (Los Angeles Times). |
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