Literary places in Athens

The Third Wedding

Costas Taktsis

In a torrent of gossip, grievance and love, two Athenian women, Nina and the indomitable Ekavi, tell the tangled story of their families across the middle of the twentieth century, through marriages, the German Occupation and the Civil War. The real city is their whole world: the middle-class neighbourhoods of Kypseli and Patissia where the households rise and fall, old Plaka beneath the Acropolis, and the central squares where the famine and the fighting come.

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