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Γη της Πικραμένης Παναγίας

Author: THodoris Papatheodorou

I quickly blink my eyes as I recover from the blow. The first thing I feel beside me, my three boys, my whole life.

“Mom…”

“Mama…”

Twice. Two voices. I’m mistaken. My God, I’m mistaken. It’s not my...

I quickly blink my eyes as I recover from the blow. The first thing I feel beside me, my three boys, my whole life.

“Mom…”

“Mama…”

Twice. Two voices. I’m mistaken. My God, I’m mistaken. It’s not my whole life. It’s incomplete. One voice less. One life less.

“Where?” I scream, and my soul tears apart. “Where is my other son?”

CYPRUS, sea-kissed, sun-drenched....

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  • Release 3/2024
  • Pages Pages 504
  • Cover Cover Soft
  • Publisher Publisher PSychogios
Genre: Historical Novel

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    The book, despite its nice style, has many inaccuracies. Due to lack of space, I will mention only three:
    1. The author accuses the Turkish Cypriot organizations of not taking up arms against the British, unlike EOKA. But since the goal of EOKA was the union of Cyprus with Greece, if the T/C had their own EOKA to unite Cyprus with Turkey, would we have participated?
    2. The author states that after independence, EOKA laid down its arms unlike the T/C who were continuously arming themselves. This is not true. The G/C made the Akritas plan which envisioned "the Union, and any reaction from the T/C would be suppressed with arms." Later, the coup took place.
    3. The author claims that one of the reasons AKEL opposed the struggle of EOKA is that its members were public servants of the British and would lose their jobs with the Union. Is that possible!!!!!! So only AKEL had members who were public servants? The other factions did not?
    The book conveys very misleading messages to someone who does not know the history of Cyprus.

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    The book, despite its nice style, has many inaccuracies. Due to lack of space, I will mention only three:
    1. The author accuses the Turkish Cypriot organizations of not taking up arms against the British, unlike EOKA. But since the goal of EOKA was the union of Cyprus with Greece, if the T/C had their own EOKA to unite Cyprus with Turkey, would we have participated?
    2. The author states that after independence, EOKA laid down its arms unlike the T/C who were continuously arming themselves. This is not true. The G/C made the Akritas plan which envisioned "the Union, and any reaction from the T/C would be suppressed with arms." Later, the coup took place.
    3. The author claims that one of the reasons AKEL opposed the struggle of EOKA is that its members were public servants of the British and would lose their jobs with the Union. Is that possible!!!!!! So only AKEL had members who were public servants? The other factions did not?
    The book conveys very misleading messages to someone who does not know the history of Cyprus.

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I quickly blink my eyes as I recover from the blow. The first thing I feel beside me, my three boys, my whole life.

“Mom…”

“Mama…”

Twice. Two voices. I’m mistaken. My God, I’m mistaken. It’s not my whole life. It’s incomplete. One voice less. One life less.

“Where?” I scream, and my soul tears apart. “Where is my other son?”

CYPRUS, sea-kissed, sun-drenched. But enslaved to the colonizers. When the time comes, its people stand tall, alone, against an empire. They fight and hope. They hurt and bleed.

First against the gallows of the British. And then against the Turkish. The invader who drowns the island in blood, that black summer of ’74. The summer of the dead, the captives, the uprooted, the thousands of missing.

Of Maritsa, who is left with an empty, orphaned embrace. Of Helen, who refuses to wear black, because they didn’t hand her a body to mourn. Of Vagorakis, who stands all day with the picture of a lost father hanging from his youthful chest. Of Nikos, Andreas, Markos, black-and-white images in front of burning candles.

Men, women, children, our brothers and sisters in Cyprus.

This is their justice and their tears.

This is their struggle.

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"Not again! Not again, my Virgin Mary!" My mouth does not shout it, my soul screams it as I run with my hand raised to cover my dry lips and my chattering teeth. I feel like my insides are churning, I think I will vomit bile, bitter bile like the one I have tasted for almost a month now, since the invasion began. My feet thunder loudly on the mosaics as I run, as if to cling and keep me upright, I really don't know how I hold myself and don't collapse in the long corridor. To my right and left are doors, some closed and some half-open, I don't even remember how many times I have passed through them, sometimes with anxiety, sometimes with burden, sometimes with sadness, but now I don't stop at any, I can't. Moans of pain are heard from some, deathly silence from others, the smell of dirty blood, sickly hairs, and stale disinfectants from end to end, they bring me suffocation, fainting. "Not again... No..." I whisper this again and again, as if my repeated denial could take from our shoulders the cross of martyrdom we will bear a second time within a few days. "Even Your Son bore it only once, my Virgin Mary. Why us...?"

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Author
THodoris Papatheodorou
Publisher
PSychogios
Publishers
Psychogios
Type
Historical Novel
Subtitle
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Cover
Soft
Number of Pages
504
Release Date
3/2024
Publication Date
2024
Dimensions
14x21 cm
ISBN-13
9786180155822

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    The book, despite its nice style, has many inaccuracies. Due to lack of space, I will mention only three:
    1. The author accuses the Turkish Cypriot organizations of not taking up arms against the British, unlike EOKA. But since the goal of EOKA was the union of Cyprus with Greece, if the T/C had their own EOKA to unite Cyprus with Turkey, would we have participated?
    2. The author states that after independence, EOKA laid down its arms unlike the T/C who were continuously arming themselves. This is not true. The G/C made the Akritas plan which envisioned "the Union, and any reaction from the T/C would be suppressed with arms." Later, the coup took place.
    3. The author claims that one of the reasons AKEL opposed the struggle of EOKA is that its members were public servants of the British and would lose their jobs with the Union. Is that possible!!!!!! So only AKEL had members who were public servants? The other factions did not?
    The book conveys very misleading messages to someone who does not know the history of Cyprus.

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    The book, despite its nice style, has many inaccuracies. Due to lack of space, I will mention only three:
    1. The author accuses the Turkish Cypriot organizations of not taking up arms against the British, unlike EOKA. But since the goal of EOKA was the union of Cyprus with Greece, if the T/C had their own EOKA to unite Cyprus with Turkey, would we have participated?
    2. The author states that after independence, EOKA laid down its arms unlike the T/C who were continuously arming themselves. This is not true. The G/C made the Akritas plan which envisioned "the Union, and any reaction from the T/C would be suppressed with arms." Later, the coup took place.
    3. The author claims that one of the reasons AKEL opposed the struggle of EOKA is that its members were public servants of the British and would lose their jobs with the Union. Is that possible!!!!!! So only AKEL had members who were public servants? The other factions did not?
    The book conveys very misleading messages to someone who does not know the history of Cyprus.

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