Christos Ikonomou
Author of Good Will Come From the Sea
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- 1970
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- male
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- Greece
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- Athens, Greece
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The point seems to be that bad times make people do bad things, but that they also create the possibility of hope: as one of the characters explains with a Zen-like insight, the notion that “good will come from the sea” only makes sense once you have fully embraced its absurdity (it becomes particularly absurd when we realise that the island has experienced a destructive earthquake and tidal wave within living memory). A painful, beautifully-written glimpse into the dark side of a place we would normally see only when it is full of scintillating light.… (more)