Something Will Happen, You'll See
Description
In a series of razor-sharp stories set in the urban sprawl between Athens and Piraeus, working-class Greeks confront the grinding uncertainty of economic collapse—laid-off workers, hungry children, and neighbors who watch one another as hope thins. With the restless momentum of Raymond Carver and the sweeping moral gravity of William Faulkner, these characters dream of escape while facing the old pressures of gossip, class indifference, and fear—now intensified by rain-soaked streets, ignored slogans, and the ever-present threat of police violence. Ikonomou’s fiction moves through impoverished quarters off the tourist map, tracing how people try to preserve dignity, solidarity, and voice when society feels atomized. At the edge of destitution, the stories find a stubborn, hard-won faith—less in institutions than in the human will to endure and act for oneself.
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paperback
New York Review of Books
Published Mar 15, 2016
226 pages
ISBN: 9780914671367
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Details
First Published
2016
Language
gre
Translation
From: gre
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