The scapegoat
By: Sophia Nikolaidou ; translated from the Greek by Karen Emmerich
Contributors: Emmerich, Karen, translator
Publisher: Melville House
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9781612193847
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Murder; Investigation; Fiction
Work titles: Choreuoun hoi elephantes
Description: From a major new Greek writer, never before translated--a wide-ranging, muck-raking, beautifully written novel about the unsolved murder of an American journalist in Greece in the fortiesIn 1948, the body of an American journalist is found floating in the bay off Thessaloniki. A Greek journalist is tried and convicted for the murder . . . but when he's released twelve years later, he claims his confession was the result of torture.
Notes: Translation from the Greek of: Choreuoun hoi elepantes.