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310 pages, Paperback
First published December 15, 1943
Διαβάστε και την κριτκή μου στα ελληνικά στις βιβλιοαλχημείες.
Æolian Earth, a book that enlivens the peaceful Asia Minor times prior the catastrophe through the eyes of young Peter who acts as an alibi for young Venezis.
One of the few required books I loved at school, because the pen was stronger and was not overshadowed by the unimaginativeness of outdated teaching.
Ilias Venezis was born in Asia Minor in 1904 when there was a sizeable Greek community with the epicentre in Smyrna, now Izmir.
In his books he narrates his experiences before and after this tragic period.
In this book his alibi (young Peter) lives the days of his childhood in carefreeness and childhood bliss.
The tragic consequences of WW1 (Greco-Turkish war, genocides, Great Fire of Smyrna, Amele Tamburu (concentration camps) Asia Minor Catastrophe) are still in the distant future but they are fast approaching like a storm.
At the end of the book we are able to glimpse the dark clouds of war in the distance but our protagonists escaped in time, in a boat with only a small handkerchief fall of soil from their homeland. Soil from their Æolian Earth.