The Heroic Age
by Stratis Haviaras
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This is the story of a group of young boys caught up in the Greek Civil War in the years immediately following World War II. Tracing the journey of these homeless, shell-shocked yet resilient young boys across a devastated Greek countryside. Heading north to cross the border and find refuge, the boys walk into the arms of the Andartes, a ragtag army of young women and boys, and find themselves involved in the most brutal fighting of the war.Tags
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"Stratis Haviaras was born in Europe and has remained alert to and even part of the development of European postmodernism. He is best known in this country for two novels, When the Tree Sings and The Heroic Age (1979, 1984), both of which earned a great deal of praise and were translated into several European languages. But before coming to the United States in 1967, escaping a repressive military regime in Greece, Haviaras had polished four collections of poetry in Greek. It is unusual for a writer who has established a reputation in his or her native language to abandon it, learn a new language, and essentially start all over again."
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- Canonical title
- The Heroic Age
- Original publication date
- 1984
- Important places
- Greece
- Important events
- Greek Civil War; World War II
- Dedication
- For Elektra
- First words
- All day we'd been roaming the flooded fields for food.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)According to my Aunt Evanthia, the heroic age for women in Greece was from the moment they were born to the moment they died.
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- Languages
- English, Italian
- Media
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