Περιγραφή
Publisher: Crocetti - Stregata dalle stelle - Eugenia Fakinou
Description:
Symi, the small island near Rhodes, is where the eleven-year-old heroine of this novel grows up, until financial reasons oblige the family to move to Athens. Astradeni leaves behind a closeknit community, a natural setting that stimulates her imagination, and a rich store of traditional values in which both religion and magic lore have their place. Astradeni supplies vivid details of the life and human relations on a remote Aegean island as well as her efforts to adapt to the hard and alienating conditions of city life. For beneath the surface charm of a young girl's narrative the reader is in fact witnessing a painful process of social charm, the violence done to the sense of values of individuals experiencing an abrupt transition from a traditional agrarian culture to competitive, industrialized society of consumers.