The Salon
A table where Greek and American writers sit together.
Conversations with the authors on our shelves, books paired across two languages, and evenings where readers meet the people who wrote them.
This month’s pairing
The same war. Two ways of remembering.
In 1941 George C. Kakridas was five, playing football in the village square near Sparta, when the German trucks arrived. His memoir follows the occupation, the famine and the civil war through a child’s eyes, and his mother Panagiota, who held the family together, until he leaves for America.
Kostas Tzavellas comes to the same years as a novelist. His story opens in 1970s Australia, where Andreas Petridis finally tells his daughter why he left Greece, and goes back to 1943 and 1944 and the Monastery of Saint George of Feneos.
One is memory, the other is fiction built on research. One was written in English, the other in Greek. Read together, they show the same war from inside a child’s fear and from a novelist’s distance, and both end with someone who had to leave to survive it.
From the Salon
Conversations, pairings, evenings
George C. Kakridas in conversation
Author conversation · On air
The author of A Boy Growing Up Under the German Occupation, interviewed on “Συνεντεύξεις με Προσωπικότητες” on Greek Radio FL.
Kakridas & Tzavellas: the same war
Paired reading
A memoir in English and a novel in Greek about the occupation years, read side by side.
The Cry of the Columns (Η Κραυγή των Κιόνων)
I Refuse (Αρνούμαι) at the Athens Book Festival
Book festival
Ioanna Lazarou’s I Refuse, presented at the 53rd Athens Book Festival.
A Salon Evening in South Florida
Salon evening
A reading and signing with an author from our shelves. Free entry. Date and place to be announced.
A table of two cuisines
Paired reading
Savor Greece and Super Nutri-Heroes: one for the cook, one for the child who helps.
Next Salon Evening
Readers and writers, in one room.
An author reads, the room asks questions, the books are on the table to sign. Greek and English, coffee and something sweet.
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