Eurydice Street

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  • Author: Sofka Zinovieff
  • Publisher: Granta Books
  • Catalogue: 131444
  • Size: 20x13cm
Part anthropology, part biography and almost part guidebook, “Eurydice Street” brilliantly, light-heartedly and captivatingly tells of author Sofka Zinovieff’s attempts to understand Greece and integrate with its people.

Zinovieff had fallen in love with Greece as a student, but little suspected that years later she would return for good to Athens with an expatriate Greek husband and two young daughters. This book is a wonderfully fresh, funny, and inquiring account of her first year as an Athenian. The whole family have to get to grips with their new life and identities: the children start school and tackle a new language, and Sofka's husband, Vassilis, comes home after half a lifetime away.

Meanwhile, Sofka resolves to get to know her new city and become a Greek citizen, which turns out to be a process of Byzantine complexity. As the months go by, Sofka discovers how memories of Athens' past haunt its present in its music, poetry, and history.

She also learns about the difficult art of catching a taxi, the importance of smoking, the unimportance of time-keeping, and how to get your Christmas piglet cooked at the baker's.