Going Back

by Tony Chapman

Anna Kouridakis is going home to Greece. It is 1974 and she is trying to pick up the pieces of a life shattered by the military dictatorship that has ruined the country and her. Going Back re-tells the events of those years, vividly evoking the Greece and London of the 1960 the heady student life, the shock of the April ’67 coup, the cruelty of the men who imposed a barbaric regime and the impact on the lives of those such as Anna and her lover Dimities. Going back is always hard, never more so than for a woman moving from a country making social progress to one repressed for so long by fear. As Greece takes its stumbling steps towards democracy so Anna tries to rebuild a life. But first she has to come to terms with a past that is still chillingly present. Going Back is a passionate love story, an indictment of repression and a lyrical tribute to a country that has suffered so much.

447 pages, Paperback

First published April 18, 2007

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[Henrik]

A different edition than noted here on GR. Purchased directly from the publisher, Dark Region Press, their moving sale Summer 2013.