Something will happen, you'll see
By: Christos Ikonomou ; translated from Greek by Karen Emmerich
Contributors: Emmerich, Karen, translator
Edition: First Archipelago Books edition.
Publisher: Archipelago Books
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9780914671350
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Short stories
Other titles: Something will happen,  you will see
Work titles: Short stories
Description: Ikonomou's stories convey the plight of those worst affected by the Greek economic crisis--laid-off workers, hungry children. In the urban sprawl between Athens and Piraeus, the narratives roam restlessly through the impoverished working-class quarters located off the tourist routes. Everyone is dreaming of escape: to the mountains, to an island or a palatial estate, into a Hans Christian Andersen story world. What are they fleeing? The old woes--gossip, watchful neighbors, the oppression and indifference of the rich--now made infinitely worse. In Ikonomou's concrete streets, the rain is always looming, the politicians' slogans are ignored, and the police remain a violent, threatening presence offstage. Yet even at the edge of destitution, his men and women act for themselves, trying to preserve what little solidarity remains in a deeply atomized society, and in one way or another finding their own voice. There is faith here, deep faith--though little or none in those who habitually ask for it.
Table of contents: title: Come on Ellie, feed the pig --; title: The tin soldier --; title: Mao --; title: And a kinder egg for the kid --; title: Placard and broomstick --; title: The blood of the onion --; title: Something will happen, you'll see --; title: The things they carried --; title: Charcoal mustache --; title: Foreign. Exotic --; title: For poor people --; title: The union of bodies --; title: Go out and burn them --; title: People are Streinz --; title: Penguins outside the accounting office --; title: Piece by piece they're taking my world away.