Why I killed my best friend
By: Amanda Michalopoulou ; translated from the Greek by Karen Emmerich
Contributors: Emmerich, Karen, translator
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Open Letter
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 257
ISBN-13: 9781934824740
Subjects: Female friendship; Fiction
Work titles: Giati skotōsa tēn kalyterē mou philē
Description: "A young girl named Maria is lifted from her beloved Africa and relocated to her native Greece. She struggles with the transition, hating everything about Athens: the food, the air, the school, her classmates, the language. Just as she resigns herself to misery, Anna arrives. Though Anna's refined, Parisian upbringing is the exact opposite of Maria's, the two girls instantly bond over their common foreignness, becoming inseparable in their relationship as each other's best friend, but also as each other's fiercest competition--be it in relation to boys, talents, future aspirations, or political beliefs. From Maria and Anna's grade school days in '70s, post-dictatorship Greece, to their adult lives in the present, Michalopoulou charts the ups, downs, and fallings-out of the powerful self-destructive bond only true best friends can have. Simply and beautifully written, Why I Killed My Best Friend is a novel that ultimately compares and explores friendship as a political system of totalitarianism and democracy."--Publisher's description.