The Third Wedding depicts the harsh realities of life experienced by Greece's lower classes before, during, and after World War II. Taktsis's unromantic prose, written in a colloquial idiom, is reminiscent of the Naturalism of Zola and the Verismo of Verga. The story is told through the eyes of two women, Nina and Hecuba. As their tales unfold, the reader quickly realizes that these women could survive the hardships of poverty, hunger, provincial prejudice, cultural constraints, and foreign occupation, only through assertiveness, cunning, sarcasm, and heroism, which is related sometimes brutally, sometimes hilariously.


In English (Translated from Greek text)
Softcover, 303 pages
ISBN: 978-0-87376-048-5 51495


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By far the greatest novel Greece has produced San Francisco Chronicle Read this book and you will know more about Greece than you could learn from a dozen histories (Sunday Times London) Taktsis has let individual lives speak deliberately for themselves and unwittingly for their period with unforced authority The Observer Taktsis' book is a celebration of the Greek people and the Greek woman in particular, and it roars with life. (Library Journal) Taktsis has wonderfully met his intention to counteract "the pseudo poeticalness and the pseudo heroics of Greek prose in the past 100 years or so" ...extremely well translated -- Antioch Review