Birds of Winter

By Theodore Vrettos

Book Overview

"Vrettos writes with intensity about his young hero's pilgrimage amid the conflicts of a Greece on the verge of war. A memorable and striking novel." John Updike This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 059519527X
• ISBN13: 9780595195275
• Release Date: August 2001
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.1" x 8.1"

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Contents:

A young man coming of age in the time of a disastrous war, rejecting his parents' generation, trying to find answers about life in a strange religious community.The theme has an uncannily modern sound, but at the time the novel is 1940, just as Mussolini's armies are about to invade Greece. The young man is called Jason, and he dreams of escape from his village...to America and the rich life, or to an isolated monastery where he might find the solution to his puzzles about God, self, and man's life on earth.War suspends everything as the Fascist divisions strike, and Jason, along with his daring, boastful uncle Pavlo, joins the army and is thrust into the fighting. Pavlo is killed and Jason, in a heroic action, is wounded. In shock, he returns not to his village but to the mountaintop monastery. But the peace he finds there is delusive and, again, he becomes the victim of an insane violence.