The Book of Katerina [Paperback]

A popular stage adaptation of the novel, directed byYorgos Nanouris, won critical acclaim and was presentedto UK audiences in 2016.My name is Katerina, and I died by a route dark and lonely,for there was too much in me I could bear no longer.In this acclaimed Greek novel, Auguste Corteau imagineshis own mother’s inner life, observing with wit and earthyhumour the saga of her extended family’s ups and downs inthe city of Thessaloniki over three generations.From the poverty of the early years through to affluence andaspirations of grandeur, Katerina drags her husband and soninto the chaos of her life: sicknesses are hidden, siblings fightfor love and attention while feckless husbands and unwantedchildren are riven through the family story.“The Book of Katerinais a gleefully sardonic novel about illness and family, and how we can never quite cure ourselves of either.” —Glen James BrownCORTEAU is the pen name of PetrosHatzopoulos. Born in Thessalonikiin 1979, he has lived for the lastdecade in Athens. He is the authorof fourteen novels as well as plays,novellas and short story collectionsand is a recipient of the GreekNational Book Award for Children’sLiterature. He has also translatedmore than thirty works of literatureinto Greek, from Nabokov’s Lolita toCormac McCarthy’s No Country forOld Men. Corteau, an LGBT activist,in 2016 signed a Cohabitation Pactwith his partner, the first same-sexcouple to do so after the law waspassed in the Greek Parliament.English translation of acclaimed Greek novel.

Finalist for the EBRD Literature Prize 2022.