From Famagusta to Vienna: Arabic Language Edition - Softcover

Marangou, Niki

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9963610439 ISBN 13: 9789963610433

Publisher: Rimal Publications, 2010

Synopsis

In the 1920s, the way of life in Central Europe dazzles George who left the sleepy town of Famagusta to study medicine in Vienna. Enamoured by the music and committed to his profession, George has no intention of returning to his homeland until the grim rise of fascism leaves him no choice.

Back in Cyprus in the 1940s, he meets young, bright and beautiful Kaety. There is obviously an attraction between them but George is unwilling to commit so he sends her to work at a hospital in Alexandria, Egypt. Trying hard to forget him, dutifully Kaety immerses herself in work and life of the cosmopolitan city during the reign of King Farouk, until one day a close friend invites her back to Limassol.

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About the Author

NIKI MARANGOU was born in Limassol, Cyprus in 1948, and studied sociology in West Berlin from 1965-70. She worked for ten years as dramaturge at the State Theatre of Cyprus and then from 1980-2007, owned and ran Kochlias Bookshop in Nicosia. She has published many books of prose, poetry and children’s fairy tales and won state prizes for her literary work. In 1998, she won the Cavafy Prize for Poetry in Alexandria. In 2004, her poem ‘Roses’ was chosen to be hung in waiting rooms in NHS Hospitals in the UK. In 2006, she received the Athens Academy poetry award for her book Divan. In May 2008, her book The Demon Of Lust was nominated in Athens as one the ten best short stories of the year for the Diavazo Awards. Her poems are included in the “European constitution in verse” of the Brussels Poetry Collective (2009) and in the cd «Nachrichten von der Poesie» (Random House) edited by Joachim Sartorius. She is a member of the Hellenic Authors Society and the Cyprus Writers Association. She had seven exhibitions of her work in painting. She lives in Nicosia and has a daughter who is a painter.

Edition details

• Publisher: Rimal Publications
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 9963610439
• ISBN 13: 9789963610433
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 171