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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0399583408
ISBN-13
9780399583407
eBay Product ID (ePID)
222149613
Product Key Features
Book Title
My Last Lament
Number of Pages
352 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Family Life, Historical, Jewish
Publication Year
2017
Genre
Fiction
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
19 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2016-004357
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
Praise for My Last Lament "The Greek setting is far less traveled ground in the English-language World War II novel, and Brown's pacing is strong and engaging."-- The New York Times "A remarkable accomplishment, a long and circuitous tale of three young people, orphaned by WWII in Greece, and their struggles to survive the brutal and chaotic aftermath--a real Greek tragedy, full of wit, pathos, and poetry. I admit that I wept at the last page, and I thought, Oh, I reckon this must be catharsis!"--Dennis McFarland, author of Nostalgia "A Greek epic in its own right, My Last Lament is the story of a nation trying to live up to its past while struggling to come to terms with its present, and of the indomitable people surviving that struggle. Aliki is a vivid and fully-realized heroine, by turns both fragile and formidable, and her story is one that will keep readers quickly turning the pages even as they linger over Brown's lovely language. My Last Lament is a book I will never forget."--Alyssa Palombo, author of The Violinist of Venice and The Most Beautiful Woman in Florence "James William Brown's brilliance and artistry as a storyteller woos, fascinates and utterly devastates in My Last Lament . If you loved All the Light We Cannot See , you will devour this novel; a heart-rending World War II story you've never heard and won't soon forget."--Susan Meissner, author of Secrets of a Charmed Life and A Bridge Across the Ocean "Deftly drawn characters with their heart-wrenching quests makes this a gripping and illuminating tale."-- The Washington Times "This is an astonishing novel, an imaginative feat of epic proportions. I was gripped from the first line. These characters! This story! Here is war and joy and terror and love and death and humor all mixed up, just as in life. I loved My Last Lament so much I kept shoving it in people's faces, saying, 'This book! You have to read this book!'"--Anna Solomon, author of Leaving Lucy Pear and The Little Bride, Praise for Blood Dance by James William Brown "This is a wonderfully crafted novel which harnesses all the lustful and dark energy of the gossip, legends, rituals, secrets, gods, superstition, imagination and lies that possess these people and this island. Brown's debut is a tragic story about the curse of 'being of a certain place.' But the novel's power is that it bespeaks the greater human tragedy of the smallness and inevitability of any life."-- Harvard Review "James William Brown conveys the layered history of a small Greek island where the past is everywhere. An assured and seductive debut..."-- The New York Times "The author has a thorough knowledge of village life and deftly weaves it in with the tempestuous facts of Greek history...evocative and persuasive."-- The Montreal Gazette "Brown is a first-rate stylist with a flair for descriptive detail; his depictions of the Greek-Turkish War and the sack of Smyrna in 1922 are vivid and resonant."-- Publishers Weekly "From five different points of view, we hear the age-old story of lust and love, of opportunities lost or taken; we see old women clad in black, gossiping and old men in tavernas, gossiping. The characters are very well drawn and everyday village life with all its traditions and superstitions is made very real."-- Library Journal "Especially remarkable about Blood Dance is that it not only captures the essence of another culture, it projects the essence through the voices of two women, a man and two distinctive choral voices of island men and island women."-- The Hellenic Chronicle, Praise for My Last Lament "A remarkable accomplishment, a long and circuitous tale of three young people, orphaned by WWII in Greece, and their struggles to survive the brutal and chaotic aftermath--a real Greek tragedy, full of wit, pathos, and poetry. I admit that I wept at the last page, and I thought, Oh, I reckon this must be catharsis!"--Dennis McFarland, author of Nostalgia "A Greek epic in its own right, My Last Lament is the story of a nation trying to live up to its past while struggling to come to terms with its present, and of the indomitable people surviving that struggle. Aliki is a vivid and fully-realized heroine, by turns both fragile and formidable, and her story is one that will keep readers quickly turning the pages even as they linger over Brown's lovely language. My Last Lament is a book I will never forget."--Alyssa Palombo, author of The Violinist of Venice and The Most Beautiful Woman in Florence "James William Brown's brilliance and artistry as a storyteller woos, fascinates and utterly devastates in My Last Lament . If you loved All the Light We Cannot See , you will devour this novel; a heart-rending World War II story you've never heard and won't soon forget."--Susan Meissner, author of The Secrets of a Charmed Life and A Bridge Across the Ocean
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Synopsis
A poignant and evocative novel of one Greek woman's story of her own--and her nation's--epic struggle in the aftermath of World War II. Aliki is one of the last of her kind, a lamenter who mourns and celebrates the passing of life. She is part of an evolving Greece, one moving steadily away from its rural traditions. To capture the fading folk art of lamenting, an American researcher asks Aliki to record her laments, but in response, Aliki sings her own story... It begins in a village in northeast Greece, where Aliki witnesses the occupying Nazi soldiers execute her father for stealing squash. Taken in by her friend Takis's mother, Aliki is joined by a Jewish refugee and her son, Stelios. When the village is torched and its people massacred, Aliki, Takis and Stelios are able to escape just as the war is ending. Fleeing across the chaotic landscape of a postwar Greece, the three become a makeshift family. They're bound by friendship and grief, but torn apart by betrayal, madness and heartbreak. Through Aliki's powerful voice, an unforgettable one that blends light and dark with wry humor, My Last Lament delivers a fitting eulogy to a way of life and provides a vivid portrait of a timeless Greek woman, whose story of love and loss is an eternal one.
LC Classification Number
PS3552.R68566M9 2017
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