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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Brown, James William, 1942- author.     Subjects     Mourning customs -- Greece -- Fiction.     Refugees -- Greece -- Fiction.     Shadow shows -- Fiction.     World War, 1939-1945 -- Greece -- Fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Brown, James William, 1942- author.       by title:      My last lament / Jam...         MARC Display

My last lament / James William Brown. by Brown, James William, 1942- author. New York, New York : Berkley, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2017. Subjects Mourning customs -- Greece -- Fiction.   Refugees -- Greece -- Fiction.   Shadow shows -- Fiction.   World War, 1939-1945 -- Greece -- Fiction. ISBN:  9780399583407 (hardcover) 0399583408 (hardcover) Description:  341 pages ; 24 cm Edition:  First edition. Requests:  0 Summary:  Aliki is one of the last of her kind, a lamenter who mourns and celebrates the passing of life. She is a part of an evolving Greece, a country moving steadily away from its rural traditions. To capture the fading folk art of lamenting, an American researcher asks Aliki to record her laments, but in response, Aliki sings her own story. It begins in a village in northeast Greece, where Aliki witnesses the occupying Nazi soldiers execute her father for stealing a squash. Taken in by her friend Takis's mother, Aliki is joined by a Jewish refugee and her son, Stelios. When the village is torched and its people massacred, Aliki, Takis and Stelios are able to excape just as the war is ending. Fleeing across the chaotic landscape of a postwar Greece, the three become a makeshift family. They're bound by friendship and grief, but torn apart by betrayal, madness and heartbreak. Through Aliki's powerful voice, an unforgettable one that blends light and dark with wry humor, this book delivers a fitting eulogy to a way of life and provides a vivid portrait of a timeless Greek woman whose story of love and loss is eternal.--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Nanakuli Public Library Adult Fiction Brown Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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