Τα ψάθινα καπέλα : Μυθιστόρημα

by Μαργαρίτα Λυμπεράκη

Paper Book, 2001

Status

Available

Call number

4.063.0

Publication

Αθήνα : Εκδόσεις Καστανιώτη, 2001. - 43η έκδ. 1η έκδοση: 1946. 1η έκδοση στις εκδόσεις "Καστανιώτη": 1995.

Pages

396

Call number

4.063.0

ISBN

978-960-03-1383-3 / 9789600313833

Description

A tender story about three sisters coming of age in Greece over the course of three summers, now available after being out of print for over twenty years. Three Summers is the story of three sisters growing up in the countryside near Athens before the Second World War. Living in a big old house surrounded by a beautiful garden are Maria, the oldest sister, as sexually bold as she is eager to settle down and have a family of her own; beautiful but distant Infanta; and dreamy and rebellious Katerina, through whose eyes the story is mostly observed. Over three summers, the girls share and keep secrets, fall in and out of love, try to figure out their parents and other members of the tribe of adults, take note of the weird ways of friends and neighbors, worry about and wonder who they are. Karen Van Dyck's translation captures all the light and warmth of this modern Greek classic.… (more)

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LibraryThing member japaul22
[Three Summers] is a Greek classic written in the 1940s about three sisters on the cusp of adulthood. The narrator is the youngest sister, Katerina, and she tells of three summers in which the sisters begin to morph into women and discover themselves and more about the world they live in. Maria,
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the oldest sister, gets married and begins a family. Infanta, the middle sister, is the more removed and reserved personality - a bit enigmatic. And Katerina, as narrator, wears her heart on her sleeve and shares her roiling emotions as she falls in love for the first time.

It's a summery, warm book that sometimes has a lazy, indolent feel and sometimes has an urgency and drama to it. I liked it quite a bit, though I also found myself having a hard time concentrating on it occasionally. I would recommend.
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Original publication date

1946

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