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Eurydice Street

Part anthropology, part biography and almost part guidebook, ‘œEurydice Street” brilliantly, light-heartedly and captivatingly tells of author Sofka Zinovieff’™s attempts to understand Greece and integrate with its people.Zinovieff had fallen in love with Greece as a student, but little suspected that years later she would return for good to Athens with an expatriate Greek husband and two young daughters. This book is a wonderfully fresh, funny, and inquiring account of her first year as an Athenian. The whole family have to get to grips with their new life and identities: the children start school and tackle a new language, and Sofka`s husband, Vassilis, comes home after half a lifetime away.Meanwhile, Sofka resolves to get to know her new city and become a Greek citizen, which turns out to be a process of Byzantine complexity. As the months go by, Sofka discovers how memories of Athens` past haunt its present in its music, poetry, and history.She also learns about the difficult art of catching a taxi, the importance of smoking, the unimportance of time-keeping, and how to get your Christmas piglet cooked at the baker`s.

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