The Third Wedding
By far the greatest novel Greece has produced  San Francisco Chronicle Read this book and you will know more about Greece than you could learn from a dozen histories (Sunday Times London) Taktsis has let individual lives speak deliberately for themselves and unwittingly for their period with unforced authority The Observer Taktsis' book is a celebration of the Greek people and the Greek woman in particular, and it roars with life. (Library Journal) Taktsis has wonderfully met his intention to counteract "the pseudo poeticalness and the pseudo heroics of Greek prose in the past 100 years or so" ...extremely well translated   --Antioch Review