Those Who Are Loved
ABOUT THE BOOK
Athens, 1941. Nazi forces occupy Greece... and a nation falls apart. After decades of political uncertainty, Greece is polarised between Right and Left-wing views when the Germans invade. Fifteen-year-old Themis comes from a family divided by these political differences. The Nazi occupation deepens the fault-lines between those she loves just as it reduces Greece to destitution. She watches friends die in the ensuing famine and is moved to commit acts of resistance. In the civil war that follows the end of the occupation, Themis joins the Communist army, where she experiences the extremes of love and hatred and the paradoxes presented by a war in which Greek fights Greek. Eventually imprisoned on the infamous islands of exile, Makronisos and then Trikeri, Themis encounters another prisoner whose life will entwine with her own in ways neither can foresee.As she looks back on her life, Themis realises how tightly the personal and political can become entangled. While some wounds heal, others deepen.
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Headline Publishing Group
