Some Wine for Remembrance - Softcover

Keeley, Edmund

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1893996158 ISBN 13: 9781893996151

Publisher: White Pine Press, 2001

Synopsis

In September, 1944, near the village of Hortiati in Macedonian Greece the death of a German soldier in an ambush by a guerrilla unit brought on a Wehrmacht retaliation that resulted in the massacre of one hundred and forty-six villagers, sixty-nine of whom were burned to death in the sealed village bakery, and the total destruction of the village. In this fictionalized account of the atrocity, an American journalist seeking to explore whether a now-prominent Austrian statesman played any part in what happened, records the testimony of five witnesses to the act: two villagers and three Wehrmacht officers.

Edmund Keeley is well-known as both a novelist and as a translator. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey.

About this title

About the Author:

Edmond Keeley is a prolific writer and translator of the major figures of conemporary Greek poetry. He is a professor emeritus at Princeton University.

Review:

Keeley has achieved an extraordinary dramatic retrieval . . it's his microcosm of flawed and suffering humanity that stays with us. -- Los Angeles Times Book Review, Sunday, January 13, 2002

About this edition

• Publisher: White Pine Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1893996158
• ISBN 13: 9781893996151
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 216