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Product details
- ISBN 9781939810212
- Dimensions: 152 x 178mm
- Publication Date: 12 Mar 2019
- Publisher: Archipelago Books
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Seeking to escape the paralysing effects of the Greek economic crisis, a group of Athenian friends move to an Aegean island in the hopes of starting over. Viewed with suspicion and disdain by the locals, they soon find themselves enmeshed in the same vicious cycle of money, power, and violence they thought they had left behind.
Christos Ikonomou was born in Athens in 1970. He has published three collections of short stories, The Woman on the Rails (2003), Something Will Happen, You'll See (Greek edition 2010; Archipelago Books, 2016), and Good Will Come From the Sea (Greek edition 2014; Archipelago Books 2018). Something Will Happen, You'll See won Greece's prestigious Best Short-Story Collection State Award and became the most reviewed Greek book of 2011. His work has been translated into six languages. Italy's La Repubblica has called him "the Greek Faulkner." About the translator: Karen Emmerich's translations from the Greek include books by Margarita Karapanou, Amanda Michalopoulou, Sophia Nikolaidou, Ersi Sotiropoulos, and Vassilis Vassilikos. Her translation of Miltos Sachtouris's Poems (1941-1971) for Archipelago was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry and her translation of Yannis Ritsos's Diaries of Exile with Edmund Keeley won the 2014 PEN Literary Award. She is the translator of Christos Ikonomou's Something Will Happen, You'll See (Archipelago Books 2016). She teaches in the Comparative Literature Department at Princeton University.
