A Petrakis Reader

A Petrakis Reader PDF Author: Harry Mark Petrakis
Publisher: Doubleday Books
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 392

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A Petrakis Reader

A Petrakis Reader PDF Author: Harry Mark Petrakis
Publisher: Doubleday Books
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 392

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The Hour of the Bell

The Hour of the Bell PDF Author: Harry Mark Petrakis
Publisher: Lake View Press
ISBN: 9780385048774
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 392

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Tales of the Heart

Tales of the Heart PDF Author: Harry Mark Petrakis
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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As life expands outward, Mr. Petrakis's darker sketches tell of gambling obsessions and life in the streets and the risk of death. In reports of travels, he turns a sharp eye on England, the Middle East, and his Greek homeland. Whether he is recalling the world of his family or the world grown large, he writes with a novelist's eye and a poet's language.

A Petrakis Reader

A Petrakis Reader PDF Author: Harry Mark Petrakis
Publisher: Doubleday Books
ISBN: 9780385135085
Category : Chicago (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 384

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Short Story Index

Short Story Index PDF Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Short stories
Languages : en
Pages : 1222

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The Greek Economy and the Crisis

The Greek Economy and the Crisis PDF Author: Panagiotis Petrakis
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642211755
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 455

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The book “The Greek Economy and the Crisis. Challenges and Responses” targets all those who think about the present and future of this (culturally) long-lived small geographic region (Greece), to form a personal view of its social and economic problems. A society that repeats the same types of behaviour over the centuries does not do so due to random mistakes. It contains intrinsic forces that affect it. These should be understood, to allow us to delineate future developments. However, the manner in which the social and economic process is perceived must be comprehensive and multidisciplinary: Economics, politics, social psychology and organizational psychology are essential to this analysis. Thus, the book is useful to those seeking information for their professional, scientific and personal development, allowing them to shape their social attitude. It is also useful to those responsible for taking decisions at national, European or enterprise level, in relation to the social and economic problems of Greece.

Collected Stories

Collected Stories PDF Author: Harry Mark Petrakis
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 380

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The Making of Mrs Petrakis

The Making of Mrs Petrakis PDF Author: Mary Karras
Publisher: Two Roads
ISBN: 9781529344950
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 336

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'An evocative mix of history, food and storytelling.' EVENING STANDARD BEST FICTION 2021 'a heart-warming, heart-breaking story of love, life, family and, of course, baking.' RUTH HOGAN Cyprus in the run up to the civil war of the 1970s... the threat of it hangs in the atmosphere like a fine mist. A terrible thing, war. Against this backdrop of war and violence, the island's inhabitants make the best they can of their lives, building friendships, falling in love, having children, watching people die, making mistakes. Maria Petrakis, however, flees a brutal marriage on the island where she has always lived for London and a new start. She opens a bakery on Green Lanes in Harringay - the centre of the small Greek Cypriot community whose residents have settled there to escape the war and start again. Here she comes into her own as she heals and atones through the kneading of bread and the selling of shamali cakes and cinnamon pastries to her customers. There are glimpses of the lives of her neighbours, friends and customers as they buy their bread and cakes. There's Mrs Koutsouli, whose heart was broken when her handsome son married a xeni, an English woman with fish-eyes and yellow hair. There's Mrs Pantelis, driven half-mad with the grief of losing her son, Nico, in the war. And there's Mrs Vasili who claims to be related to Nana Mouskouri and grows her hair upwards so she can feel closer to God. Finally, there's Elena, Maria Petrakis' daughter-in-law, who has been suffering with the blackness since having a baby, and whom nobody knows quite how to help. The Making Of Mrs Petrakis is a story about the limited choices women sometimes find themselves confronting. It's a story about repression and mental illness and the devastation it can wreak on lives. But above all, it is a story of motherhood and love and of healing through the humble act of baking.

The Orchards of Ithaca

The Orchards of Ithaca PDF Author: Harry Mark Petrakis
Publisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 9780809325788
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 296

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Orestes Panos, a prosperous restaurateur on the eve of his fiftieth year and the coming millennium, personalizes humankind's epic struggle between the unresolved guilt and sins of our shared past and the potential of a still untainted future.

The Odyssey of Kostas Volakis

The Odyssey of Kostas Volakis PDF Author: Harry Mark Petrakis
Publisher: Dissertation.com
ISBN: 9780595007608
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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"Every man's life is an Odyssey: it does not matter if the body remains rooted in one place. For it is the heart and spirit that journey to Ithaca." Those words from Father Marlas, parish priest to Kostas Volakis, embody the theme of this novel, which carries Kostas and his bride, Katerina from the harsh life on Crete, to the United States, through their struggles with poverty, and through their joys and sorrows with children and grandchildren. For one of their children, Kostas feels not love, but hate, which leads inexorably to murder, and, finally, to a dramatic redemption in prison.