Wheat Songs : A Greek-American Journey
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| Title: | Wheat Songs : A Greek-American Journey |
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| Description: | 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. |
| Authors: | Perry Giuseppe Rizopoulos, William A. Meis |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Italian Americans--New York (State)--Bronx County--Biography, Greek Americans--New York (State)--Bronx County--Biography |
| Categories: | BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Survival, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General, PHILOSOPHY / Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | 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. |
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| ISBN: | 9781618117717 9781618117724 9781618117731 9781644691434 9781644692967 |
