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SUMMARY:Gefyra Book Club: “Niki: A Novel” by Christos Chomenidis
DESCRIPTION:Gefyra Book Club: Niki: A Novel by Christos Chomenidis\, trans. Patricia Felisa Barbeito\n(Other Press\, 2023) \nDiscussion led by Professor Sharon Gerstel\, Director\, UCLA SNF Hellenic Center\nand Dr. Eirini Kotsovili\, Senior Lecturer\, Global Humanities at Simon Fraser University \nSaturday\, May 17\, 2025\n10 a.m. Los Angeles / 8 p.m. Greece\nVia Zoom \nRSVP here: https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/tOd7OiJDRcCfM5-T2u0Ecg \nThis academic year’s book club is held in English and will feature Greek books in translation. For future book selections and meeting dates\, click here. \nBorn in 1938\, Niki\, the daughter of the deputy secretary general of the Greek Communist Party\, is swept up in turmoil before her first birthday: her parents are arrested\, and she joins her mother in exile on an island near Santorini. Growing up\, she experiences the Italian and German invasion\, the Nazi occupation\, and the civil war that came after\, often caught between her socialist values and those of the right-wing establishment\, to which half her relatives belong. Through her memories and the stories of her family\, with roots on both coasts of the Aegean Sea\, Niki also tells the history of Greece and Asia Minor from the late nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth. Her remarkable tales\, full of humor and verve in spite of hardship\, are populated by working-class heroes\, privileged elites\, daring revolutionaries\, and free-spirited bohemians. \nChristos Chomenidis was born in Athens\, Greece. In addition to writing novels\, Chomenidis has hosted his own nationally broadcast radio show\, written scripts for cinema and television\, and writes a column for Greece’s largest newspaper\, Ta Nea. His novel Νiki won the 2021 European Book Prize\, and his works have been translated into numerous languages. \nPatricia Felisa Barbeito is Professor of American Literatures at the Rhode Island School of Design and a translator of modern Greek fiction and poetry. Her translations include Elias Maglinis’s The Interrogation\, which was awarded the 2013 Modern Greek Studies Association’s Constantinides Memorial Translation Prize\, M. Karagatsis’s The Great Chimera\, and Amanda Michalopoulou’s God’s Wife\, which was short-listed for the 2020 National Translation Award. \nThis program is made possible thanks to the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF). \nLinks to purchase book: \nhttps://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/niki-christos-chomenidis/1142242207?ean=9781635421972 \nhttps://otherpress.com/product/niki-9781635421972/ \nhttps://www.amazon.com/Niki-Novel-Christos-Chomenidis/dp/1635421977 \nThe Gefyra Book Club meeting is part of Gefyra (Bridge)\, a collaborative program established by the UCLA SNF Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture and the Simon Fraser University SNF Centre for Hellenic Studies with support from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF).
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/gefyra-book-club-niki-a-novel-by-christos-chomenidis/
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