{"product_id":"arrested-song-irena-karafilly","title":"Arrested Song – Irena Karafilly","description":"\u003cp class=\"font_8 wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003eCalliope Adham – young, strong-willed, and recently widowed – is schoolmistress in the village of Molyvos when Hitler’s army invades Greece in 1941. Well-read and linguistically gifted, she is recruited by the Germans to act as their liaison officer. It is the beginning of a personal and national saga that will last for several decades.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font_8 wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003e\u003cbr class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003eCalliope’s wartime duties bring her into close contact with Lieutenant Lorenz Umbreit, the Wehrmacht commander. The schoolmistress is an active member of the Greek Resistance, yet her friendship with the German blossoms against all odds, in a fishing village seething with dread and suspicion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font_8 wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003e\u003cbr class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003eAmid privation and death, the villagers’ hostility finally erupts, but the bond between Calliope and Umbreit survives, taking unforeseeable turns as Greece is ravaged by civil war and oppressed by military dictatorship. It is against this turbulent background that Calliope emerges as a champion for girls' and women's rights.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font_8 wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003e\u003cbr class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003eArrested Song\u003c\/span\u003e is a haunting, sumptuous novel, weaving the private and the historic into a vivid tapestry of Greek island life.  Spanning over three decades, it chronicles the story of an extraordinary woman and her lifelong struggle against social and political tyranny.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font_8 wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003e\u003cbr class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'I enjoyed Arrested Song immensely … Karafilly succeeds brilliantly where I had decided not even to try. A very accomplished novel'\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e Louis de Bernières, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eCaptain Corelli's Mandolin)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font_8 wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003e\u003cbr class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘A gripping, powerfully evocative chronicle of Greek island life in times of peace and war. Nothing is black and white here, least of all her feisty, iconoclastic heroine...hard to put this book down.’ \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003eSofka Zinovieff, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eRed Princess\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ePutney \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font_8 wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003e\u003cbr class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘Arrested Song is a wonderful novel, fully realized and absorbing.’\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e Anna Porter, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eDeception\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font_8 wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘One of the best novels I’ve read about modern Greece... A truly original work.’\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e Diana Farr Louis, author of \u003c\/span\u003eA Taste of Greece\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ctable id=\"product-attribute-specs-table\"\u003e\n\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth scope=\"row\"\u003ePages\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003ctd data-th=\"Pages\"\u003e352\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth scope=\"row\"\u003ePublication Date\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003ctd data-th=\"Publication Date\"\u003e2023\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth scope=\"row\"\u003ePublisher\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003ctd data-th=\"Publisher\"\u003eLegend Press\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth scope=\"row\"\u003eISBN\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003ctd data-th=\"ISBN\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e9781915643964\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth scope=\"row\"\u003eBinding\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003ctd data-th=\"Binding\"\u003ePaperback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth scope=\"row\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003ctd data-th=\"Author\"\u003eIrena Karafilly\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Diavazo Greek Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56900561273214,"sku":"arrested song","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0580\/7574\/2397\/files\/arrested-song-irena-karafilly-7565652.jpg?v=1770530168","url":"https:\/\/checkout.diavazo.co.uk\/products\/arrested-song-irena-karafilly","provider":"Diavazo Greek Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}