The Full Catastrophe: Travels Among the New Greek Ruins

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The Full Catastrophe: Travels Among the New Greek Ruins

A transporting, good-humored, and revealing account of Greeceâ€™s dire troubles, reported from the mountain villages, idyllic islands, and hardscrabble streets that define the country today

In recent years, small Greece, often associated with ancient philosophers and marble ruins, whitewashed villages and cerulean seas, has been at the center of a debt crisis that has sown economic and social ruin, spurred panic in international markets, and tested Europeâ€™s decades-old project of forging a closer union.

In The Full Catastrophe, James Angelos makes sense of contrasting images of Greece, a nation both romanticized for its classical past and castigated for its dysfunctional present. With vivid character-driven narratives and engaging reporting that offers an immersive sense of place, he brings to life some of the causes of the countryâ€™s financial collapse, and examines the changes, some hopeful and others deeply worrisome, emerging in its aftermath. A small rebellion against tax authorities breaks out on a normally serene Aegean island. A mayor from a bucolic, northern Greek village is gunned down by the municipal treasurer. An aging, leftist hero of the Second World War fights to win compensation from Germany for the wartime occupation. A once marginal group of neo-Nazis rises to political prominence out of a ramshackle Athens neighborhood.

The Full Catastrophe goes beyond the transient coverage in the daily headlines to deliver an enduring and absorbing portrait of modern Greece.

From the Hardcover edition.

Country	USA
Author	James Angelos
Binding	Kindle Edition
Edition	Reprint
EISBN	9780385346498
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Broadway Books
Manufacturer	Broadway Books
NumberOfPages	322
PublicationDate	2015-06-02
Publisher	Broadway Books
ReleaseDate	2015-06-02
Studio	Broadway Books

The Full Catastrophe: Travels Among the New Greek Ruins

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