Et in Arcadia Ego

By ATHANASIOS IOANIS ZAVALOS

George, a frustrated twenty-year-old man flees from his obligations, the daily struggle for survival in Athens and his impeding drafting in the army. Allured by the notion that life is easier in the country, he abandons everything and starts searching for love and a purpose in the barren semi-deserted villages of the plateaus of Arcadia.

Giota, an unwary fourteen-year-old girl elopes with a much older itinerant merchant in a desperate effort to escape from her dreary village life and her molesting father. A widow at 25 she lives with scanty means, locked in time and trapped in the harsh wilderness of the high plains of Arcadia from which she has been seeking a way out for years.

When George and Giota meet they have little more to offer to each other than sex as they watch their hopes and prospects gradually fade away. Until ...

Images of "idyllic" dark country life in Greece in the last fifty years.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B092L18XK3
• ISBN13: 9798738026461
• Release Date: April 2021
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 418 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"