Stamatia X
By: Effie Carr
Publisher: Primer Fiction
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Sydney, Australia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
ISBN-13: 9780648170716
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Families; Fiction; Greek Australians; Greeks; Greek Mythology; Nineteen seventies; Emigration and immigration; Social life and customs
Description: Weaving Greek mythology, religion and the study of grammar, Stamatia X is the story of a Greek-Australian girl whose parents make the monumental decision to re-migrate "like birds flying backwards" to Greece. The year is 1973 and a military junta is in power. This modern Greek tragedy subverts notions of family, culture and gender. A yiayia in a swimsuit, a blasphemous Greek Orthodox priest, a corrupt regime. An explosive epic.