Fresh Blood - Softcover

Ayanoglu, Byron

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1511974079 ISBN 13: 9781511974073

Verlag: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015

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Reseña del editor:

"Gripping; entertaining; insightful. A true literary and gastronomic treat." Paul William Roberts (author of Empire of the Soul) FRESH BLOOD Maria is a seventy-two year old Greek widow who has just been arrested. She has had a difficult life. Born into the Nazi occupation of her Aegean island, she grew up during the Greek Civil War and its aftermath in the impoverished fifties. Married off in her teenaged years to a rich man many years her senior, she suffers the indignities of an abused wife for forty-seven years as Greece struggles with the political chaos of the sixties, the tyranny of the Junta in the seventies, the fake normalcy of the corrupt eighties and nineties, and the exaggerated promises of the European Union in the new century. Finally free of her husband, who dies in 2004, Maria spends eight peaceful years with her books and her friends, until that fateful morning of her reckoning in 2012, at the nadir of the Greek financial crisis. We go back in time and relate her story to uncover the nature of her crime.

Biografía del autor:

Byron Ayanoglu is a writer of many hues. Memoirist, travel columnist, cookbook author, film-scenarist, playwright, restaurant reviewer, novelist. He has published the perennial best-selling Thai cookbook Simply Thai Cooking (Random House, 1995; reissued by Robert Rose, 1996 and re-released three times). His most recently published novel is A Traveler's Tale (2013). Prior to that, Istanbul to Montréal, was simultaneously published in a Turkish version in Istanbul; a very popular memoir Crete on the Half Shell (HarperCollins, 2004; published internationally; optioned for film), and a well-received satirical romance Love in the Age of Confusion (DC Books, 2002). Widely traveled, Byron speaks five languages and lives in the Laurentians in the summer and somewhere snow-free in winter.

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• Verlag: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1511974079
• ISBN 13: 9781511974073
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 274