Aphrodite and the others
Bouras, Gillian
Aphrodite and the others / Gillian Bouras - 174 pages : genealogical table
Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-174).
"Aphrodite - priest's wife, matriarch, illiterate -has lived in her village in the Peloponnese for eighty-six years. Her struggle and hardship have been echoed by national and international upheavals, by war, dictatorship and famine. In writing the story of her mother-in-law's life, Gillian Bouras recounts her own difficulties as a Western educated woman, coming to terms with a woman so culturally different and domestically powerful."--Cover
0869143166
Bouras, Aphrodite, 1908-
Bouras, Gillian, 1945-
Peloponnesus (Greece : Peninsula)--Biography
949.52
Aphrodite and the others / Gillian Bouras - 174 pages : genealogical table
Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-174).
"Aphrodite - priest's wife, matriarch, illiterate -has lived in her village in the Peloponnese for eighty-six years. Her struggle and hardship have been echoed by national and international upheavals, by war, dictatorship and famine. In writing the story of her mother-in-law's life, Gillian Bouras recounts her own difficulties as a Western educated woman, coming to terms with a woman so culturally different and domestically powerful."--Cover
0869143166
Bouras, Aphrodite, 1908-
Bouras, Gillian, 1945-
Peloponnesus (Greece : Peninsula)--Biography
949.52