The scapegoat / Sophia Nikolaidou ; translated from Greek by Karen Emmerich.

By:

Nikolaidou, Sophia, 1968-

Contributor(s):

Emmerich, Karen

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Brooklyn ; London : Melville House, 2015.Description: 246 p. ; 22 cmISBN:

9781612193847 (hardcover)

Uniform titles:

Choreuoun hoi elephantes. English

Subject(s):

Greek fiction, Modern -- Translations into English -- 21st century

DDC classification:

889.34

Summary: "In 1948, the body of an American journalist is found floating in the bay off Thessaloniki. A small-time Greek journalist is tried and convicted murder... but when he's released twelve years later, he claims his confession was the result of torture. Flash forward to contemporary Greece, where a rebellious young high school student is given an assignment for a school project: find the truth. And as he begrudgingly takes it on, he begins to make a startling series of gripping discoveries - about history, love, and even his won family's involvement. Based on the real-life murder of famed CBS reporter George Polk - journalism's prestigious Polk Awards were named after him - The Scapegoat is a sweeping saga that brings together the Greece of post-World War II era with the Greece of today, a country facing dangerous times once again. As told by key players in the story - the dashing journalist's Greek widow, the mother and sisters of the convicted man, the brutal Thessaloniki chief of police, a British Foreign Office investigator, and, finally, the modern-day student, in the novel's most stirring narration of all - The Scapegoat confronts questions of truth, justice, and sacrifice... and how the past is always with us."-- Publisher's description.

List(s) this item appears in: Translated Modern Greek Fiction

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Reserve - Overnight loan	CYA Library Reserve	889.34 NIK (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		00000009491

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"In 1948, the body of an American journalist is found floating in the bay off Thessaloniki. A small-time Greek journalist is tried and convicted murder... but when he's released twelve years later, he claims his confession was the result of torture.
Flash forward to contemporary Greece, where a rebellious young high school student is given an assignment for a school project: find the truth. And as he begrudgingly takes it on, he begins to make a startling series of gripping discoveries - about history, love, and even his won family's involvement.
Based on the real-life murder of famed CBS reporter George Polk - journalism's prestigious Polk Awards were named after him - The Scapegoat is a sweeping saga that brings together the Greece of post-World War II era with the Greece of today, a country facing dangerous times once again.
As told by key players in the story - the dashing journalist's Greek widow, the mother and sisters of the convicted man, the brutal Thessaloniki chief of police, a British Foreign Office investigator, and, finally, the modern-day student, in the novel's most stirring narration of all - The Scapegoat confronts questions of truth, justice, and sacrifice... and how the past is always with us."-- Publisher's description.

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