A foreign country
By: Fotios Sarris
Publisher: Dumagrad, City of Words
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 402
ISBN-13: 9781988887050
Copyright date: 2020
Subjects: Greeks; Fiction; Parent and adult child; Family-owned business enterprises; Scholars
Description: "A young man comes of age in Montreal's Greek community, where he discovers the world of literature. Determined to escape the common fate of immigrant children, he leaves to pursue a doctorate. But the tragic pull of his family - his mother's mental deterioration, his father's physical decay - conspire against his hopes. He ends up running and living above the family business: precisely the fate he'd hoped to avoid. A vivid depiction of Montreal's Mile End in the seventies and eighties, by which time Greeks and Italians had replaced the Jewish community of Mordecai Richler's era."--