Eleftheria, Forever in Black (ePub)
(Sprache: Englisch)
Several years ago, I was diagnosed and consequently had surgery for spinal stenosis. This condition forced me to spend more time at home. I became tired of watching the same reality shows over and over and began thinking of my own life. Over the course of...
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Several years ago, I was diagnosed and consequently had surgery for spinal stenosis. This condition forced me to spend more time at home. I became tired of watching the same reality shows over and over and began thinking of my own life. Over the course of three years I began to write down my memories and those of my sister Eleftheria. I soon realized it was quite the story. All the names, places and dates of this book are real and truthful. Every incident described in this book was witnessed by me or confirmed by members of my immediate or extended family. The horrible truth is that we lived in hellish indignation. After WWII and during the Greek Civil War, in many instances the hatred intensified and the fear took over. I witnessed fathers and sons turning on each other and even go as far as shooting one another. Everyone was dressed alike. One couldnt discern friend from foe. If you were asked a question and gave the wrong answer; you had better start praying. For 10 whole years we lived in a chaotic, dangerous and corrupted environment. I witnessed arson and death. I even saw people tortured with hot oil and slashings. All these experiences culminated into excruciating nightmares that have haunted and continue to haunt me all my life. This book is about the war and two families, the Papaioannou and the Kalogeras families, which battled hunger, sickness, resentment, immigration and death.
Autoren-Porträt von Alkiviadis Pappas
Alkis Pappas is the author of Eleftheria: Forever in Black. Born in 1936 in Alestia, a tiny remote village in central Greece, he was the last of 10 children born into the Papaioannou family. During WWII, at the age of four years old, like everyone else, he was a victim of the German occupation, hiding in the caves of the high mountains where only eagles and condors dared to go. After WWII was over, the ordeal continued into 1950 with the Greek civil war. Once again, hungry and barefoot, he fled to the snowy mountains, but this time Mother Earth couldn’t provide the vital wild veggie roots because of the snow-covered ground and the freezing weather. They left for the big city, Agrinion, where the churches opened their soup kitchens and the schools gave temporary shelter to the needy. During those years, education was nonexistent. In a span of seven years, the Papaioannou family lost three children: Nickolas was in the army and was killed in the war; Elias was 8 years old and died at home, not able to find a doctor; and Harilaos was killed in a hunting trip. All these unfortunate events left a big scar in Alkis’ life. They never healed, and seventy-five years later, he still suffers from nightmares and severe depression. In 1955, at the age of eighteen, Alkis immigrated to the United States, hoping to continue school, but he couldn’t because of financial problems. He learned English on the NYC subways by reading American newspapers with the help of a pocket dictionary. His first job was as a busboy, earning sixty-seven dollars a week. In 1965, he went back to Greece and married his wife, Eleni. He now lives in New York and has three wonderful children and seven grandchildren. Two of his grandchildren bare his name.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Alkiviadis Pappas
- 2019, 352 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: AUTHORHOUSE
- ISBN-10: 1504984811
- ISBN-13: 9781504984812
- Erscheinungsdatum: 01.01.2019
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