APHRODITE AND THE OTHERS (ΑΓΓΛΙΚΗ ΕΚΔΟΣΗ)

Aphrodite, illiterate wife of a village priest, lived in her Peloponnesian village for eighty-eight years. When she was seventy-two, her Australian daughter-in-law came to visit and unexpectedly stayed. In writing the story of Aphrodite's life, Gillian Bouras also relates her own story, that of an educated Westerner having to adjust to a woman who was so culturally different, and who was formidable in her domestic power.

A well, Gillian recounts her slow but absorbed learning of other days and other ways, so that this book is not simply Aphrodite's story, but also a counterpoint of the oral tradition and the literate one, the personal and the political, with individual village voices murmuring against the clamour of wider European events.