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Roumeli is not to be found on present-day maps. It is the name once
given to northern Greece--stretching from the Bosporus to the
Adriatic and from Macedonia to the Gulf of Corinth, a name that
evokes a world where the present is inseparably bound up with the
past.
"Roumeli" describes Patrick Leigh Fermor's wanderings in and around
this mysterious and yet very real region. He takes us with him
among Sarakatsan shepherds, to the monasteries of Meteora and the
villages of Krakora, and on a mission to track down a pair of
Byron's slippers at Missolonghi. As he does, he brings to light the
inherent conflicts of the Greek inheritance--the tenuous links to
the classical and Byzantine heritage, the legacy of Ottoman
domination--along with an underlying, even older world, traces of
which Leigh Fermor finds in the hills and mountains and along
stretches of barely explored coast.
"Roumeli" is a companion volume to Patrick Leigh Fermor's famous"
Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese."
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
"Full of insights, marvelously entertaining . . . haunting and beautifully written." --The New York Review of Books
"I lived in Athens, at the intersection of a prostitute and a saint." So begins Patricia Storace's astonishing memoir of her year in Greece. Mixing affection with detachment, rapture with clarity, this American poet perfectly evokes a country delicately balanced between East and West.
Whether she is interpreting Hellenic dream books, pop songs, and soap operas, describing breathtakingly beautiful beaches and archaic villages, or braving the crush at a saint's tomb, Storace, winner of the Whiting Award, rewards the reader with informed and sensual insights into Greece's soul. She sees how the country's pride in its past coexists with profound doubts about its place in the modern world. She discovers a world in which past and present engage in a passionate dialogue. Stylish, funny, and erudite, Dinner with Persephone is travel writing elevated to a fine art--and the best book of its kind since Henry Miller's The Colossus of Maroussi.
"Splendid. Storace's account of a year in Greece combines past and present, legend and fact, in an unusual and delightful whole. " --Atlantic Monthly
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