Wheat Songs : : A Greek-American Journey / / Perry Giuseppe Rizopoulos.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Academic Studies Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
• VerfasserIn: Rizopoulos, Perry Giuseppe,
• TeilnehmendeR: Meis, William A.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (220 p.)

Wheat Songs is a memoir of two interconnected Greek-American journeys-an actual physical journey for the grandfather, Pericles Rizopoulos, and a philosophical quest by the author, Perry Giuseppe Rizopoulos. When the grandfather, Pericles Rizopoulos, a proud old man, tells his fascinating, tragic and true stories of the Nazi occupation of Greece during World War II and the following Greek Civil War, to his twenty-something grandson, Perry Giuseppe Rizopoulos, Perry's philosophical reflections on his grandfather's stories along with his own memories of growing up in his extended Greek/Italian/American family in the Bronx combine to create an enduring story about the strength created by a tightly-knit family and the powerful values passed down from generation to generation.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- 1. Difficult Choices -- 2. We're Not Made of Ashes -- 3. A Terrible Furnace -- 4. No Sack Full of Sugar -- 5. God and the Evil Eye -- 6. No One Sleeps -- 7. Dancing in the Dark -- 8. A Faint Flash of Red -- 9. A Tempestuous History -- 10. The Irrational Universe -- Epilogue: A Bright White Light