The Cretan Runner by George Psychoundakis

Author:George Psychoundakis
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: New York Review Books
Published: 2015-10-03T16:00:00+00:00

1. To Africa, that is.

2. A party.

3. An old revolutionary song against the Turks, dating from early in the last century.

4. Good-day.

5. In this case, a term of endearment.

6. One of these girls, Tassoula, was the heroine of the great abduction case five years ago. She was kidnapped and carried away to the top of Mount Ida and married in haste there in a cave by my god-brother from Anoyeia, Kosta Kephaloyiánnis, an affair which fiddled the foreign newspapers. As the bride’s family was Venizelist and the bridegroom’s royalist, it brought the whole island to the brink of civil war. [ PLF]

7. Guerrilla fighters.

8. Three Churches.

9. The Fairmile was commanded by Commander John Campbell, DSO, RN, who came ashore to conduct the evacuation. [ PLF]

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