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Leta Serafim
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TO LOOK ON DEATH NO MORE
In autumn of 1943, a lone allied soldier parachutes into Greece. His stated goal: to build an airstrip for the British. Brendon O’Malley is an Irishman, and he soon discovers that fighting the Nazis is not the same as embracing the British, who have seriously misled him about his mission. Wounded during the drop, he’s set upon and robbed by a seventeen-year-old girl, Danae, and her little brother,
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I wrestled with this issue continually as I was working on this book, and I kept asking myself how deeply did I want to go? How dark did I want to get? What was the answer or even the start of an answer to this unfolding human tragedy? And as far as
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My husband’s family was from Chios, and I was always drawn to it—in part, because it is so different from the rest of Greece. When I first visited the island in 1976, it was almost like a private kingdom, dominated by a few wealthy ship-owning dynast
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The best thing about being a writer is when something unexpected emerges, a bit of poetry you didn't know you had in you.
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When I get writer's block, I try and trick myself by putting the book aside and writing something else. One year, it was Christmas cards. After I wrote notes to about a dozen people, I was able to get back to work.
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“Judging by what I’ve seen, human beings are the devil’s own, his one true family. There’s nothing divine about us. We’re just a bunch of animals, greedy animals who harm their own kind, harm them to possess what they have, harm them to own. The only thing special about us is, we don’t die off when we should. We adapt. We endure. That’s our single greatest attribute as a species … our staying power. In our tolerance of misery, we are quite versatile.”
― The Devil Takes Half
― The Devil Takes Half
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