Description
In this acclaimed Greek novel, Auguste Corteau imagines his own mother's inner life, observing with wit and earthy humour the saga of her extended family's ups and downs in the city of Thessaloniki over three generations.
Author: Auguste Corteau
Publisher: Parthian
Published: 12/03/2021
Pages: 170
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.90h x 4.90w x 0.70d
ISBN13: 9781912681266
ISBN10: 1912681269
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
Author: Auguste Corteau
Publisher: Parthian
Published: 12/03/2021
Pages: 170
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.90h x 4.90w x 0.70d
ISBN13: 9781912681266
ISBN10: 1912681269
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
About the Author
CORTEAU is the pen name of Petros Hatzopoulos. Born in Thessaloniki in 1979, he has lived for the last decade in Athens. He is the author of fourteen novels as well as plays, novellas and short story collections and is a recipient of the Greek National Book Award for Children's Literature. He has also translated more than thirty works of literature into Greek, from Nabokov's Lolita to Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men. Corteau, an LGBT activist, in 2016 signed a Cohabitation Pact with his partner, the first same-sex couple to do so after the law was passed in the Greek Parliament.