Foreign Words by Vassilis Alexakis

Foreign Words

Vassilis Alexakis with Alyson Waters (Translator)

214 pages first pub 2002 (editions)

fiction reflective slow-paced

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Crossing countries and continents, this narrative follows a son lost for words over the death of his father. Unable to write the phrase "My father is dead" in either his native Greek or his adopted French, he heads for Africa to undertake the lear...

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