Shades of Resistance

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Combines fine literary writing and vivid characters with illumination of ordinary individuals coping with, and resisting, the political/personal crisis of living under a dictatorship.Introduces readers in English to a very recent European dictatorship?Greece in the 1970s?that has ominous echoes today in military juntas and ?populist? autocracies around the world.Beautifully describes life in the exquisite islands of the Aegean.The novel is a rare combination of literary writing, fascinating relatable characters, and an engrossing plot that engages the reader in the complex and compelling decisions of when it becomes necessary to engage politically, and of the many varied ways in which ordinary people do so in the face of crisis.