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Book Release for Eurydice Street: A Place in Athens by Sofka Zinovieff |
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Title: Eurydice Street: A Place in Athens Author: Sofka Zinovieff Publisher: Granta Books Date of Publication: 2004 Language: English ISBN13: 9781862076815 Availability: Online Distributors Visit http://www.sofkazinovieff.com |
“In the summer of 2001 Sofka Zinovieff accompanied her husband on a posting back to Athens. This book is both an account of her enthusiastic, if often balked, attempts to transform herself into a Greek, and a vivid evocation of a city in a chaotic ferment of change. In its lively and often trenchant blend of personal recollection and a depiction of an Athens of rowdy tavernas, resourceful refugees, majestic prostitutes, innumerable theatre companies, ferocious demonstrations and age-old customs affectionately preserved, this is a thoroughly engaging memoir.”—Francis King, Spectator “Athens forms the background of Sofka’s writing debut, Eurydice Street, full of insight and humour. It is subtle, penetrating and written with disarming clarity. Sofka Zinovieff deserves a place on the shelves up there with Lawrence Durrell and Patrick Leigh Fermor.”—Cressida Connolly, Vogue “A beguiling blend of autobiography and travel swirled into a portrait of a city and a meditation on Greekness’—Sara Wheeler, Daily Telegraph “A guidebook of a kind, a guide to the Athens that is rather than the Athens that is trying to be. It is both a modest and magnificently well-judged book which anyone thinking of an Athenian trip ought to read. It is generous, appreciative as well as exasperated.”—Peter Strothard, Times Literary Supplement “An account of an Englishwoman’s first year in Athens and a beguiling picture of ‘becoming Greek’”—Traveller Magazine ‘As an anthropologist, the author observes the process with an objective eye; as a wife and mother, it’s nothing less than total immersion. . . here is the inside track on what it means to be Greek: a lovely book, full of poetry, history and insights. Aspiring Shirley Valentines. . . shouldn’t leave home without it.”—Daily Mail “This is an insightful account of a chaotic and exhilarating city, where the writer had personal as well as cultural obstacles to overcome.”—Daily Telegraph “A witty and engaging account of life in Athens. . . at points and pitch of her narrative rises from that of personal memoir and catches something more elevated.”--Economist |
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About the Author Sofka Zinovieff trained as an anthropologist and has worked as a journalist. She lives in Athens. This is her first book. |
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