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Sofka Zinovieff had fallen in love with Greece as a student, but little suspected that years later she would, return for good with an expatriate Greek husband and two young daughters. This book is a wonderfully fresh, funny, and inquiring account of her first year as an Athenian. The whole family have to come to grips with their new life and identities—the children start school and tackle a new language, and Sofka's husband, Vassilis, comes home after half a lifetime away. Meanwhile, Sofka resolves to get to know her new city and become a Greek citizen, which turns out to be a process of Byzantine complexity. As the months go by, Sofka's discovers how memories of Athens' past haunt its present in its music, poetry, and history. She also learns about the difficult art of catching a taxi, the importance of smoking, the unimportance of time-keeping, and how to get your Christmas piglet cooked at the baker's.
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John Stoltz
reviewed Eurydice Street: A Place in Athens on August 01, 2014 Eurydice Street
Adapting to the greek culture is no light task and it can be as claimed " a process of Byzantine complexity". Coming from the less boisterous ( in more ways than one) Portugal , I share with the author many insights about Greece, Athens, and its culture and way of life. As the author, I am also living in Athens and I totally relate to her in many aspects. When we speak about Greece it always come to mind the stereotyped image of Zorba-like greeks dancing sirtaki and drinking ouzo. But Greece is more than that and Sofka Zinovieff does an excellent and faithfull job when it comes to unveil the true face of Greece. And as the veil is taken off, the flaws are showed. And what I liked more about this travel memoir is that , though Sofka reveals to the reader those flaws, she does that in a caring way as she feels truly sorry for doing that. The feeling I got from her account is that she deeply loves Greece and believe that its situation could have been better if only...
I think this book will appeal more to someone who is moving to Athens or to someone who wants to learn more about its sad and turbulent past.
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