An American poet, repatriated in the land of her ancestors,
Adrianne Kalfopoulou is a consummate storyteller. Lucid, precise,
and unflinching, Broken Greek stands up to comparison with previous
accounts of the Greek experience, with great style. It's a lively
and poignant journey to the gods and demons of present-time Greece.
Stratis Haviaras, author of When the Tree Sings and The Heroic Age
Unlike other writers on modern Greece, Adrianne Kalfopoulou gives
us a powerful non-fiction narrative that goes against the romantic
notions that most people have of this country. Her sensitivity to
the verbal noise that hovers around the Hellene like a cartoon
bubble transforms important decisions (buying that lovely island
house, getting into a car accident, applying for a teaching job at
the Greek university, raising a hybrid daughter), into a
transcendent read. Nicholas Papandreou, author of A Crowded Heart
What happens when the common things of everyday life become a
constant negotiation of one's place in one's world? This is the
predicament of the migrant, of the millions of people who try to
make their life in a different place. This book is full of love,
and yet also full of frustration and anger: Adrianne Kalfopoulou
desires to be a part of this world of ancestry, but is forced to
admit she can't, that one cannot enter the same river twice. Jose
Itzigsohn, Brown University In Broken Greek, Adrianne Kalfopoulou
takes us beyond the whitewash into the heart of Greek culture, as
well as its spleen. She guides us through the labyrinth of Athenian
and Patmian streets and creates a map of the contradictory Greek
psyche. People argue loudly in public, are fatalistic about
politics and the law while family and neighbors unconditionally
help their own. In her vividly wrought odyssey she learns that
"Greece eats her children," but also how to speak "a language of
vulnerability." Aliki Barnstone, translator of The Collected Poems
of C.P. Cavafy, A New Translation
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