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Synopsis

An Entertainment Weekly "Must Read," this masterful debut tells one family's tumultuous story of love and resistance during the Greek military junta of the 1960s.

In The Green Shore, award-winning writer Natalie Bakopoulos vividly illuminates a seminal yet little-explored moment in Greek history: the 1967 military coup d'etat, which ushered in a seven-year period of devastating brutality and repression.

Through lyrical prose of wisdom and sophistication, we follow the adventures of four characters whose lives play out against the backdrop of this turbulent period: Eleni, a widowed doctor, struggles with her lost sense of passion; her brother, Mihalis, an eccentric poet, attempts to reconcile with his estranged wife; and Eleni's daughter, Sophie, gets swept up in the resistance, while her sister, Anna, undergoes a remarkable transformation from betrayed lover to empowered student activist. As the years pass and the dictatorship's oppressive rule continues unchallenged, their lives unfold in surprising ways, each seeking love and fulfillment as they struggle to make their own peace.

Set in Paris and Athens, The Green Shore is an ambitiously told tour de force that delves into a momentous episode in the history of a distant country. Says Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow of The New York Times Book Review, "As Bakopoulos shows, it's possible to be homesick for a country even when living within its borders."

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