Título: Gregory: and Other Stories
Série: -
Autor: Panos Ioannides
Data de Leitura: 31/01/2022 ⮞ 01/03/2022
Classificação: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Sinopse
A translation of twelve award winning short stories and novellas. Gregory, The Bath, Uniforms, The Suitcase and The Escape have been adapted for the theater by the author and staged in theaters in Cyprus and abroad (such as Greece, England, USA and Germany) whereas all the short stories have been included in prestigious anthologies such as Short Story International, Sudden Fiction and others.
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To his left, blood-red with azure reflections, the sea; in the distance, half sunk in the water, the sun; to his right and behind him, a green strip of land, perfectly geometrical, a symmetrical carpet spread in an inhospitable, bone-dry valley, scattered with shells and rocks, barren for a thousand years or more, since the time of the great drought which filled Cyprus with reptiles and monasteries.
É através de 12 contos que PI conta a história sangrenta da pequena ilha do mediterrâneo, desde os tempos de Homero até 1974.
Wherever you dig, two inches below the ground, you will find them: bones and stones and reptiles.
É sempre bom lembrar que a ilha de Chipre está, desde a invasão da Turquia, há quase 50 anos, dividida entre duas comunidades - a cipriota grega, no sul, e a cipriota turca, a norte.
As 12 histórias exploram ideias de confiança e desconfiança, lealdade e traição, aparência e realidade, mas acima de tudo uma ideia de pertença, de identidade e auto preservação.
The right thing is to save your skin. That’s only logical. It’s either your skin or his.
Os contos que mais gostei foram:
Gregory
Festival of the Full Moon
Kypriani
The Suitcase
The Unseen Aspect
Uma viagem literária a Chipre que foi bastante interessante.
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