The House on Paradise Street

Sofka Zinovieff

• Publisher: Atria Books/Marble Arch Press
• Year: 2013
• Topic: Literature
• eBook ISBN:
  9781476718798
• Subtopic: Literature General
• Index: Literature

In 2008 Antigone Perifanis returns to her old family home in Athens after 60 years in exile. She has come to attend the funeral of her only son, Nikitas, who was born in prison, and whom she has not seen since she left him as a baby.

At the same time, Nikitas’s English widow Maud – disturbed by her husband’s strange behaviour in the days before his death – starts to investigate his complicated past. She soon finds herself reigniting a bitter family feud, and discovers a heartbreaking story of a young mother caught up in the political tides of the Greek Civil War, forced to make a terrible decision that will blight not only her life but that of future generations...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Dedication
• Chapter 1: A Polite Stranger
• Chapter 2: Half My Heart is Russian
• Chapter 3: Privacy and Solitude are Not Greek Words
• Chapter 4: Penelope’s Cloth
• Chapter 5: A Foreign Country
• Chapter 6: Fly in the Milk
• Chapter 7: The Solemn Rhythm
• Chapter 8: A Fair Resting Place
• Chapter 9: The Unspeakable Name
• Chapter 10: I Dreamed that Greece Might Still Be Free
• Chapter 11: Wise Mares
• Chapter 12: To the Mountains
• Chapter 13: English Alien
• Chapter 14: With Bloodshed if Necessary
• Chapter 15: December Events
• Chapter 16: Little Stalingrad
• Chapter 17: Wild Greens and Cold Water
• Chapter 18: Dirty Bulgarian Whores
• Chapter 19: The Incurable Necrophilia of Radical Patriotism
• Chapter 20: Farewell Poor World, Farewell Sweet Life
• Chapter 21: Live Your Myth in Greece
• Chapter 22: I, The Undersigned
• Chapter 23: The Ugly City Burns Beautifully
• Chapter 24: Anthropos
• Chapter 25: Forty Days and Forty Nights
• Chapter 26: Now It’s Different
• A Note on the Background
• A Brief History of Greece
• Acknowledgements
• Copyright