Margarita Liberaki

Three sisters, three summers . . . This coming-of-age novel offers a sweet, light, and dreamy escape to one of Athens oldest suburbs before WW2 (Lit Hub). Following Woolf, [Liberaki] captures life as it is lived in small moments of being, especially of female domestic rituals. Electric LiteratureThree Summers is the story of three sisters growing up in the countryside near Athens before the Second World War. Living in a big old house surrounded by a beautiful garden are Maria, the oldest sister, as sexually bold as she is eager to settle down and have a family of her own; beautiful but distant Infanta; and dreamy and rebellious Katerina, through whose eyes the story is mostly observed. Over three summers, the girls share and keep secrets, fall in and out of love, try to figure out their parents and other members of the tribe of adults, take note of the weird ways of friends and neighbors, worry about and wonder who they are. Now back in print after twenty years, Karen Van Dycks translation captures all the light and warmth of this modern Greek classic.

With a new introduction by Polly Samson, Sunday Times bestselling author of A THEATRE FOR DREAMERSGorgeous... the written equivalent of lying in the sun eating figs India Knight, Sunday TimesThat summer we bought big straw hats. Marias had cherries around the rim, Infantas had forget-me-nots, and mine had poppies as red as fire. . .Three Summers is a warm and tender tale of three sisters growing up in the countryside near Athens before the Second World War. Living in a ramshackle old house with their divorced mother are flirtatious, hot-headed Maria, beautiful but distant Infanta, and dreamy and rebellious Katerina, through whose eyes the story is mostly observed. Over three summers, the girls share and keep secrets, fall in and out of love, try to understand the strange ways of adults and decide what kind of adults they hope to become.The sun has disappeared from books these days... You are one of those who pass it on Albert Camus to Margarita LiberakiThe literary equivalent of a sun-soaked holiday in Greece Culture WhisperA leisurely, large-hearted coming-of-age novel, earthy and innocent, nostalgic and beautifully renderedKirkusA dreamy, cinematic tapestry of Greek village lifeNPR

Caterina, la joven narradora de este gran clásico de la lite­ratura griega del siglo XX, es amante de la lluvia y también del sol, de los animales domésticos con los que convive, de los paseos solita