Swell
By: Io anna Karystiani ; translated from the Modern Greek by Konstantine Matsoukas
Contributors: Matsoukas, Konstantine, 1959-
Publisher: Europa
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Translated from: gre
Translation of: Σουέλ
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781933372983
Subjects: Ship captains; Family relationships; Seafaring life; Fiction
Description: The moment of reckoning has arrived. After 12 years at sea, it is time for Captain Mitsos Avgoustis to return to the island of his birth: home to his wife Flora, his children, a granddaughter he has never met, and Litsa, his lover from all those years ago; a modern day Penelope awaiting her Ulysses. It will take all of his courage and strength to face the squalls and storms on land after a lifetime at sea--and all the while, resisting the temptation to return to his ocean going vessel, for it is there that his demons lurk and there that his true home lies.