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Author_Nicholas Gage
autobiography
biographies
biographies and autobiographies
biography
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civil war
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death of the family
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european
greece
greek war of independence
herodotus histories
heros of olympus
mazower greek revolution
memoir book
mid century
military
military history
mother to son
murder in my family
non violent resistance
peloponnesian war
politics
post war
taschen greek myths
torture
trapped child
violent politics
war crimes
world war 2
ww2
Product details
- ISBN 9781860463464
- Weight: 435g
- Dimensions: 131 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 03 Apr 1997
- Publisher: Vintage Publishing
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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A son's quest to avenge his mother's murder.
In 1948, in a Greek mountain village, Eleni Gatzoyiannis was arrested, tortured and shot. She was one of the 158,000 victims of the Greek Civil War. Her crime had been to help her children escape from the Communist guerrillas who occupied their village. Her son, Nicholas Gage, was then eight years old. Eleni is the story of his obsessive and harrowing reconstruction of his mother's life and death and his pursuit of his mother's killer.
Nicholas Gage was born in Greece and emigrated to the United States ten years later. He was an investigative reporter and foreign correspondent for the New York Times when he wrote Eleni, working as their bureau chief in Athens. It was published in 1983 and went on to win the Royal Society for Literature's Heinemann Award for the best book of the year in 1984. Eleni became a bestseller all over the world and was made into a feature film.
