The Murderess (New York Review Books Classics)
ISBN-13:
9781590173503
ISBN-10:
1590173503
Edition:
Main
Author:
Alexandros Papadiamantis
Publication date:
2010
Publisher:
NYRB Classics
Format:
Paperback
144 pages
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ISBN-13:
9781590173503
ISBN-10:
1590173503
Edition:
Main
Author:
Alexandros Papadiamantis
Publication date:
2010
Publisher:
NYRB Classics
Format:
Paperback
144 pages
Summary
The Murderess (New York Review Books Classics) (ISBN-13: 9781590173503 and ISBN-10: 1590173503), written by authors
Alexandros Papadiamantis, was published by NYRB Classics in 2010.
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The Murderess is a bone-chilling tale of crime and punishment with the dark beauty of a backwoods ballad. Set on the dirt-poor Aegean island of Skiathos, it is the story of Hadoula, an old woman living on the margins of society and at the outer limits of respectability. Hadoula knows about herbs and their hidden properties, and women come to her when they need help. She knows women’s secrets and she knows the misery of their lives, and as the book begins, she is trying to stop her new-born granddaughter from crying so that her daughter can at last get a little sleep. She rocks the baby and rocks her and then the terrible truth hits her: there’s nothing worse than being born a woman, and there’s something that she, Hadoula, can do about that.
Peter Levi’s matchless translation of Alexandros Papadiamantis’s astonishing novella captures the excitement and haunting poetry of the original Greek.
Peter Levi’s matchless translation of Alexandros Papadiamantis’s astonishing novella captures the excitement and haunting poetry of the original Greek.
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