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Title: Carved in Stone : The Greek Heritage by Basil S. Douros ISBN: 0-9670593-1-3 Publisher: Five & Dot Pub Pub. Date: 23 July, 1999 Format: Paperback List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.57 (7 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Interesting tale, poorly written
Comment: I purchased this book to gain insight into the experience of Greek immigrants as research for a project of my own. While it provided the information I was looking for, it was difficult to get through. I have less problem with Douros' skills as a writer as I do with the job of his editor and publisher. They could have done a better job of bringing this book up to snuff.
Rating: 5
Summary: A monument to the courage of migrants
Comment: You'd have to be carved out of stone not to be touched by Basil Douros's heartfelt story of his family's migration from Greece to America almost a century ago. The Odyssey of the Douropoulos family comprises passion, drama, bloodshed, high sea adventures, courage, endurance and humour in equal measures. Douros writes vividly of the tumultuous transition from the old world to the new, of how despite the economic advantages of America, his relatives still longed in their hearts to smell the wild herbs crushed beneath their footsteps as they climbed the stony mountains of their war-ravaged birthplace. Migrants built America and they built Australia too. The Douros story is universal. I've been a migrant twice in my life and I just loved this book.
Rating: 5
Summary: Great Reading for Diaspora
Comment: While Douros's fine effort will have special meaning for members of the Greek Diaspora and their offspring in the U.S., this story of his family's history, emigration and assimilation will resonate with anyone whose family members came to the U.S. to seek their fortune and to breath free. While my family went through this process coming from Asia Minor under somewhat different circumstances than Douros's family, and wound up in New York City rather than in Douros's Boston, all of the characters and situations have a very familiar ring as the Greek culture and religion barely miss a beat crossing the Atlantic and landing in America, where the village ways reluctantly begin to loosen their grip, at first to the bolder members of the clan and then, over time, to the others. The book is richly written and an easy, fast read. Really very well done. Bravo!
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Title: Not Even My Name by Thea Halo ISBN: 0312277016 Publisher: Picador USA Pub. Date: 01 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Smyrna 1922: The Destruction of a City by Marjorie Housepian Dobkin ISBN: 0966745108 Publisher: Newmark Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1998 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: After the War Was Over by Mark Mazower ISBN: 0691058423 Publisher: Princeton University Press Pub. Date: 15 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Inside Hitler's Greece: The Experience of Occupation, 1941-44 by Mark Mazower ISBN: 0300089236 Publisher: Yale Nota Bene Pub. Date: 01 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Modern Greece: A Short History by C. M. Woodhouse ISBN: 0571197949 Publisher: Faber & Faber Pub. Date: 01 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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