![]() ![]() From 1940, when the communist and fascist guerrilla groups were gaining ground in Greece, until her death in 1948, Eleni lived a life of increasing hardship. He sketches her early years and marriage, giving us a glimpse of her husband Christo, who sought his fortune in the United States, returning periodically to be with his wife but who believed it better to keep her in Greece, living the "old ways" while he lived the new. In this massive tale, over 600 pages in the cheap paperback edition I bought, Gage begins at the beginning and relentlessly takes us on every road, into every conversation, through the relatively good times and into the horrific, that holds a part of his mother. True to his heritage, as an adult he set out to revenge her death, but his background in investigative journalism led him to seek out the truth first. Gage wanted to know who was really responsible for his mother's death. His mother, Eleni, was tried and executed in his little mountain village in 1948, by communist guerrillas, who controlled the village during the civil war there. ![]() ![]() Nicholas Gage, who emigrated at the age of nine to America from Greece in 1949, was haunted by his mother's death. An extraordinary blend of investigative reporting and imagination, originally printed in 1983. ![]()
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