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A middle-aged woman in front of her computer screen shares her posts on Facebook. Through these posts, she shares her memories and dreams and comes to terms with her past; she faces the world around her and its many contradictions and injustices; she ponders on what it means to be intelligent and successful in the digital age; she tries to fathom what it means to be poor or an immigrant in a crisis-stricken world. Struggling with social injustice and individual vanity, she tries to discover her voice and herself in the midst of the whirlwind that is contemporary life.
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A middle-aged woman in front of her computer screen shares her posts on Facebook. Through these posts, she shares her memories and dreams and comes to terms with her past; she faces the world around her and its many contradictions and injustices; she ponders on what it means to be intelligent and successful in the digital age; she tries to fathom what it means to be poor or an immigrant in a crisis-stricken world. Struggling with social injustice and individual vanity, she tries to discover her voice and herself in the midst of the whirlwind that is contemporary life.
Author Biography
Maro Douka was born in 1947 in Chania, Crete. She has been living in Athens since 1966. Her first book, containing the novellas “The Well” and “Some people”, was published in 1974 (Kedros Publishers), followed by another novella, two collections of short stories, nine novels, a memoir and two collections of critical essays. She was awarded the Nikos Kazantzakis Prize for her novel “Fool’s Gold”, the State Prize for the novel “The Floating City”, and the Costas Ouranis Prose Fiction Award by the Academy of Athens as well as the 2006 Balkanika Award for her novel “The Innocent and the Guilty”. Her short stories and novels have been translated into several European languages.She was awarded the 2019 State Prize for the entire contribution of her work to the Greek letters.
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- Publisher Patakis Publishers
- Orginal LanguageGreek
- ISBN/Identifier 9789601681481
- Publication Country or regionGreece
- Pages342
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Copyright Year2018
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