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Eleni

Nicholas Gage

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#1927 of 3,809 books · #659 in Biography & Memoir

Shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography (1983).

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.

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Publisher
Random House
ISBN-13
9781407054155
Topics
Greek Civil WarFamily history and revengeMother's murder

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