Mother land
By: Dmetri Kakmi
Publisher: Eland
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9781906011390
Subjects: Greeks; Violence; Children; Ethnic relations; Fiction
Description: "Mother Land is a minutely remembered description of a childhood on an Aegean island, marked by the furious opposition of hostile yet neighbouring cultures. It is an account of how a Greek boy born on a Turkish island tries to make sense of the escalating tension between Greek and Turk, Muslim and Christian, mother and father. It shows with chilling clarity how violence begets violence, in even the most unexpected of people. It is also about the pains of exile and the discovery of long buried secrets which have inflamed the passionate hatred that exists between the two communities."--Publisher's description.
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