The Murderess

The Murderess
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Publisher : New York Review of Books
Total Pages : 146
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ISBN-10 : 9781590173503
ISBN-13 : 1590173503
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Book Synopsis The Murderess by : Alexandros Papadiamantis

Download or read book The Murderess written by Alexandros Papadiamantis and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Murderess is a bone-chilling tale of crime and punishment with the dark beauty of a backwoods ballad. Set on the dirt-poor Aegean island of Skiathos, it is the story of Hadoula, an old woman living on the margins of society and at the outer limits of respectability. Hadoula knows about herbs and their hidden properties, and women come to her when they need help. She knows women’s secrets and she knows the misery of their lives, and as the book begins, she is trying to stop her new-born granddaughter from crying so that her daughter can at last get a little sleep. She rocks the baby and rocks her and then the terrible truth hits her: there’s nothing worse than being born a woman, and there’s something that she, Hadoula, can do about that. Peter Levi’s matchless translation of Alexandros Papadiamantis’s astonishing novella captures the excitement and haunting poetry of the original Greek.


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