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02405aam a22003978i 4500 001 4AC83A981E7C11E7AD0CABCCDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20170411010109 008 160405s2017 nyu 000 1 eng 010 $a 2016004357 020 $a 0399583416 (ebook) 020 $a 9780399583414 (ebook) 020 $a 0399583408 : HRD 020 $a 9780399583407 : HRD 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d DLC $d SKYRV $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PS3552.R68566 $b M9 2017 082 00 $a 813/.54 $2 23 100 1 $a Brown, James William, $d 1942- $e author. 245 10 $a My last lament / $c James William Brown. 250 $a First edition. 263 $a 1703 264 1 $a New York : $b Berkley Books, $c 2017. 300 $a 341 pages ; $c 23 cm. 520 $a Aliki is one of the last of her kind, a lamenter who mourns and celebrates the passing of life. She is a part of an evolving Greece, a country moving steadily away from its rural traditions. To capture the fading folk art of lamenting, an American researcher asks Aliki to record her laments, but in response, Aliki sings her own story. It begins in a village in northeast Greece, where Aliki witnesses the occupying Nazi soldiers execute her father for stealing a squash. Taken in by her friend Takis's mother, Aliki is joined by a Jewish refugee and her son, Stelios. When the village is torched and its people massacred, Aliki, Takis and Stelios are able to excape just as the war is ending. Fleeing across the chaotic landscape of a postwar Greece, the three become a makeshift family. They're bound by friendship and grief, but torn apart by betrayal, madness and heartbreak. Through Aliki's powerful voice, an unforgettable one that blends light and dark with wry humor, this book delivers a fitting eulogy to a way of life and provides a vivid portrait of a timeless Greek woman whose story of love and loss is eternal.-- $c from dust jacket. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $z Greece $v Fiction. 941 $a 8 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20231012021148.0 952 $l CVPA586 $d 20210803013957.0 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20200110071249.0 952 $l D8PD522 $d 20191211012044.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20181006104943.0 952 $l SCPC074 $d 20170728030706.0 952 $l ZYPE837 $d 20170601015900.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20170502012202.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=4AC83A981E7C11E7AD0CABCCDAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search