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North of Ithaka

Eleni N. Gage
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Author : Eleni N. Gage
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2006-04-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781466823907

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North of Ithaka by Eleni N. Gage Pdf

Leaving behind a sparkling social life and a successful journalism career, Eleni Gage moved from New York City to the remote Greek village of Lia. Lia is the same village where her father was born and her grandmother murdered, and which her father, Nicholas Gage, made famous twenty years ago with his international bestseller Eleni. Her four aunts (the diminutive but formidable thitsas) warned Eleni that she'd get killed by Albanians and eaten by wolves if she moved to Lia, invoking the curse her grandmother placed on any of her descendants who returned to Greece. But Eleni was determined to rebuild the ruins of her grandparents' house and to come to terms with her family's tragic history. Along the way, she learned to dodge bad omens and to battle the scorpions on her pillow and the shadows in her heart. She also came to understand that Greece and its memories were not only dark and death-filled, and that memories of the dead can bring new life to the present. Part travel memoir and part family saga, North of Ithaka is, above all, a journey home.

North of Ithaka

Eleni Gage
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Author : Eleni Gage
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Epirus (Greece and Albania)
ISBN : 1863254099

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North of Ithaka by Eleni Gage Pdf

When 27-year-old Eleni Gage sets out for her family's native Greece to rebuild her grandparents' house in the remote but beautiful village of Lia, she wants to transform the site of a tragic past into a home for the future. Her grandmother, also called Eleni, was imprisoned and tortured there during the Greek Civil War. After a shaky start, as the house grows so does Eleni's love for Lia and the villagers. Part travel memoir, part family saga, NORTH OF ITHAKA is a funny, moving and fascinating journey home.

Lucky in Love

Eleni N. Gage
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Author : Eleni N. Gage
Publisher : Clarkson Potter
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-11
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780525573913

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Lucky in Love by Eleni N. Gage Pdf

Every engaged couple wants two things: a meaningful wedding and a lifetime of happiness. This great gift book is a cross-cultural collection of marriage folklore that will help you achieve both. Create your own lucky traditions with nods to each other’s heritage, customs from places you’ve visited together, and auspicious rituals that just feel special. Whether you are just engaged or you’re days away from tying the knot, you’ll gain insight every step of the way. With this book as your guide, you can make your own luck in love.

Other Waters

Eleni N. Gage
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Author : Eleni N. Gage
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429941495

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"A Jane Austen-ish plot gets a delicious Indian accent in this effervescent novel by former PEOPLE editor Gage . . . in this exotic, mysterious setting, cultures collide, love grows more complicated and Maya finally discovers just whom – and where – she is really meant to be." --People, **** Maya is an accomplished psychiatry resident with a supportive boyfriend, loving family, and bustling New York social life. When her grandmother dies in India, a family squabble over property ignites a curse that drifts across continents and threatens Maya's life. Or so her father says-- Maya (being a modern woman, an American, and a doctor) doesn't believe in curses, Brahman, or otherwise. But then a series of calamities befalls her family, her career and relationship both falter, and Maya starts to worry. She hopes a trip back to India with her best friend, Heidi, will enable her to remove the curse, save her family, and put her own life back in order. Thus begins a journey into Maya's parallel worlds-- New York and an India filled with loving and annoying relatives, vivid colors, and superstitious customs she doesn't, and does, believe in. But her time in India isn't just a visit "home" or a chance to explore the strengthening and suffocating bonds of family, it's also the beginning of a cathartic quest toward forging one identity out of two cultues as Maya learns unexpected lessons about life and love.

Eleni

Nicholas Gage
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Author : Nicholas Gage
Publisher : Random House
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2010-02-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781407054155

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Eleni by Nicholas Gage Pdf

A son's quest to avenge his mother's murder. In 1948, in a Greek mountain village, Eleni Gatzoyiannis was arrested, tortured and shot. She was one of the 158,000 victims of the Greek Civil War. Her crime had been to help her children escape from the Communist guerrillas who occupied their village. Her son, Nicholas Gage, was then eight years old. Eleni is the story of his obsessive and harrowing reconstruction of his mother's life and death and his pursuit of his mother's killer.

Ithaca

Claire North
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Author : Claire North
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316668798

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From the multi-award-winning author Claire North comes a daring reimagining that breathes life into ancient myth and gives voice to the women who stand defiant in a world ruled by ruthless men. It’s time for the women of Ithaca to tell their tale . . . "North brings a powerful, fresh, and unflinching voice to ancient myth. Breathtaking." —Jennifer Saint, author of Ariadne Seventeen years ago, King Odysseus sailed to war with Troy, taking with him every man of fighting age from the island of Ithaca. None of them has returned, and the women of Ithaca have been left behind to run the kingdom. Penelope was barely into womanhood when she wed Odysseus. While he lived, her position was secure. But now, years on, speculation is mounting that her husband is dead, and suitors are beginning to knock at her door. No one man is strong enough to claim Odysseus' empty throne—not yet. But as everyone waits for the balance of power to tip, Penelope knows that any choice she makes could plunge Ithaca into bloody civil war. This is the story of Penelope of Ithaca, famed wife of Odysseus, as it has never been told before. Beyond Ithaca's shores, the whims of gods dictate the wars of men. But on the isle, it is the choices of the abandoned women—and their goddesses—that will change the course of the world.

The Ladies of Managua

Eleni N. Gage
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Author : Eleni N. Gage
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466863002

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The Ladies of Managua by Eleni N. Gage Pdf

Lushly evocative of Nicaragua, its tumultuous history, and vibrant present, Eleni N. Gage's The Ladies of Managua brings you into the lives of three strong and magnetic women, as they uncover the ramifications of the choices they made in their pasts and begin to understand the ways in which love can shape their futures. When Maria Vazquez returns to Nicaragua for her beloved grandfather's funeral, she brings with her a mysterious package from her grandmother's past—and a secret of her own. And she also carries the burden of her tense relationship with her mother Ninexin, once a storied revolutionary, now a tireless government employee. Between Maria and Ninexin lies a chasm created by the death of Maria's father, who was killed during the revolution when Maria was an infant, leaving her to be raised by her grandmother Isabela as Ninexin worked to build the new Nicaragua. As Ninexin tries to reach her daughter, and Maria wrestles with her expectations for her romance with an older man, Isabela, the mourning widow, is lost in memories of attending boarding school in 1950's New Orleans, where she loved and lost almost sixty years ago. When the three women come together to bid farewell to the man who anchored their family, they are forced to confront their complicated, passionate relationships with each other and with their country—and to reveal the secrets that each of them have worked to conceal.

North of Ithaka

Eleni Gage
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Author : Eleni Gage
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Travel
ISBN : UOM:39015060097295

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North of Ithaka by Eleni Gage Pdf

The story of one woman's attempt to understand her family's history in Greece.

Journey to Ithaca

Anita Desai
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Author : Anita Desai
Publisher : Random House India
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788184004090

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Sophie and Matteo are young and in love, sharing a dissatisfaction with their bourgeois Italian upbringing. Naturally, like so many other young Westerners in the sixties and seventies, they go to India. But the realities of life in an ashram ignite their differences; Sophie wants to be a tourist and go to Goa and eat shrimp, which Matteo scorns, seeking the ‘real’ India. Pragmatic Sophie is disillusioned by the hardships they encounter, while her husband, who yearns for spiritual fulfillment, sees only the purity of ascetic life, leading him to Mother, a charismatic guru. Trying to reclaim an ailing Matteo, Sophie embarks on a new journey in search for a different truth; that of Mother’s mysterious past. Soon, she finds that the immortal has a history of her own; born in Cairo, she was once Laila, a dancer who toured the world before coming to Bombay to search for ‘divine love’. What each of the three people discover, on their individual quests, is at its heart that ancient truth: that wisdom is found in the journey itself. A stirring, profound exploration of emotional exile, of sacred and profane loves, Journey to Ithaca is a masterful novel.

Ithaka

Adèle Geras
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Author : Adèle Geras
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0152061045

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Ithaka by Adèle Geras Pdf

The island of Ithaka is overrun with uncouth suitors demanding that Penelope choose a new husband, as she patiently awaits the return of Odysseus from the Trojan War.

Odysseus Unbound

Robert Bittlestone,James Diggle,John Underhill
Odysseus Unbound Book PDF

Author : Robert Bittlestone,James Diggle,John Underhill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2005-09-19
Category : History
ISBN : 0521853575

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Odysseus Unbound by Robert Bittlestone,James Diggle,John Underhill Pdf

Extraordinary story of the exciting discovery of the true location of Odysseus' homeland of Ithaca.

Imagining Ithaca

Kathleen Riley
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Author : Kathleen Riley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198852971

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Imagining Ithaca by Kathleen Riley Pdf

'Though home is a name, a word, it is a strong one', said Charles Dickens, 'stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit answered to, in strongest conjuration.' The ancient Greek word nostos, meaning homecoming or return, has a commensurate power and mystique. Irish philosopher-poet John Moriarty described it as 'a teeming word... a haunted word... a word to conjure with'. The most celebrated and culturally enduring nostos is that of Homer's Odysseus who spent ten years returning home after the fall of Troy. His journey back involved many obstacles, temptations, and fantastical adventures and even a katabasis, a rare descent by the living into the realm of the dead. All the while he was sustained and propelled by his memories of Ithaca ('His native home deep imag'd in his soul', as Pope's translation has it). From Virgil's Aeneid to James Joyce's Ulysses, from MGM's The Wizard of Oz to the Coen Brothers' O Brother, Where Art Thou?, and from Derek Walcott's Omeros to Margaret Atwood's Penelopiad, the Odyssean paradigm of nostos and nostalgia has been continually summoned and reimagined by writers and filmmakers. At the same time, 'Ithaca' has proved to be an evocative and versatile abstraction. It is as much about possibility as it is about the past; it is a vision of Arcadia or a haunting, an object of longing, a repository of memory, 'a sleep and a forgetting'. In essence it is about seeking what is absent. Imagining Ithaca explores the idea of nostos, and its attendant pain (algos), in an excitingly eclectic range of sources: from Rebecca West's The Return of the Soldier and Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front, through the exilic memoirs of Nabokov and the time-travelling fantasies of Woody Allen, to Seamus Heaney's Virgilian descent into the London Underground and Michael Portillo's Telemachan railway journey to Salamanca. This kaleidoscopic exploration spans the end of the Great War, when the world at large was experiencing the complexities of homecoming, to the era of Brexit and COVID-19 which has put the notion of nostalgia firmly under the microscope.

Images from the Region of the Pueblo Indians of North America

Aby M. Warburg
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Author : Aby M. Warburg
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781501707698

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Images from the Region of the Pueblo Indians of North America by Aby M. Warburg Pdf

Aby M. Warburg (1866–1929) is recognized not only as one of the century’s preeminent art and Renaissance historians but also as a founder of twentieth-century methods in iconology and cultural studies in general. Warburg’s 1923 lecture, first published in German in 1988 and now available in the first complete English translation, offers at once a window on his career, a formative statement of his cultural history of modernity, and a document in the ethnography of the American Southwest. This edition includes thirty-nine photographs, many of them originally presented as slides with the speech, and a rich interpretive essay by the translator.

Ithaca

Patrick Dillon
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Author : Patrick Dillon
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781681771953

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Ithaca by Patrick Dillon Pdf

In the tumultuous aftermath of the Trojan War, a young man battles to save his home and his inheritance. Setting out to find his father, he ends up discovering himself. Telemachus’s father, Odysseus, went off to war before he was born...and never came back. Aged sixteen, Telemachus finds himself abandoned, his father’s house overrun with men pursuing his beautiful mother, Penelope, and devouring the family’s wealth. He determines to leave Ithaca, his island home, and find the truth. What really happened to his father? Was Odysseus killed on his journey home from the war? Or might he, one day, return to take his revenge? Telemachus's journey takes him across the landscape of bronze-age Greece in the aftermath of the great Trojan war. Veterans hide out in the hills. Chieftains, scarred by war, hoard their treasure in luxurious palaces. Ithaca re-tells Homer’s famous poem, The Odyssey, from the point of view of Odysseus’ resourceful and troubled son, describing Odysseus’s extraordinary voyage from Troy to the gates of hell, and Telemachus’s own journey from boyhood to the desperate struggle that wins back his home...and his father.

Horrible Mothers

Loïc Bourdeau
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Author : Loïc Bourdeau
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781496218278

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Horrible Mothers by Loïc Bourdeau Pdf

For too long the main narratives of motherhood have been oppressive and exclusionary, frequently ignoring issues of female identity--especially regarding those not conforming to traditional female stereotypes. Horrible Mothers offers a variety of perspectives for analyzing representations of the mother in francophone literature and film at the turn of the twenty-first century in North America, including Québec, Ontario, New England, and California. Contributors reexamine the "horrible mother" paradigm within a broad range of sociocultural contexts from different locations to broaden the understanding of mothering beyond traditional ideology. The selections draw from long-established scholarship in women's studies as well as from new developments in queer studies to make sense of and articulate strategies of representation; to show how contemporary family models are constantly evolving, reshaping, and moving away from heteronormative expectations; and to reposition mothers as subjects occupying the center of their own narrative, rather than as objects. The contributors engage narratives of mothering from myriad perspectives, referencing the works of writers or filmmakers such as Marguerite Andersen, Nelly Arcan, Grégoire Chabot, Xavier Dolan, Nancy Huston, and Lucie Joubert.