Kronos Coming March 8, 2024

 



Kronos is a passionate story of Marika, a charismatic and indominable modern Greek woman who is loved, to the end, by two Greek brothers—Christos, the left-winger who immigrates to the United States and spends his life yearning for his lost love; and Yorgos, who becomes one of the Greek junta colonels and is never sure of the woman he so loves.

Their stories, played out in the beauty of Greek islands and seas and the mystery and allure of Athens, abound with joy, deceit, betrayals, seething emotion and the wild and sensual rhythms of this country so beloved by so many.  What is Greece really like? That Greece of Zorba dancing and hearty taverna fare and the Aegean, that oh-so-beautiful sea—so many lives and stories and regrets and pleasures await in the Greece of Kronos.  

Kronos abounds in the ups and downs of modern Greek happenings, including its Civil War after World War II’s Nazi Occupation and the right-wing junta rule of the colonels 1967-1974. After the ending of Kronos’ story in 1975, life continued to have its ravages in Greece—economic problems reflected in the European Community, a huge influx of Arab refugees after the Iraqi and other Mideast wars, and devastating wildfires on Greek mountainsides and islands due to climate change.

But Greeks through the millennia have been strong and resilient, not just on the mainland and islands but in their diaspora. Like characters in Kronos, three million of Greek ancestry live not only in the United States but all over the world, including 400,000 in Melbourne, Australia. Kronos captures and helps us share their lust for life.

This digital edition is the first time this novel has been published in the United States.  But it was published in 1991 in London by Andre Deutsch and in paperback in London by Arrow in 1993.  Kronos was translated into Greek in 2021 and subsequently published in Athens.  I researched and wrote the book when I lived in Greece—Athens, Nauphlion, and Syros— for four years in the 1980s. You might ask, so what was it like?  It inspired Kronos!

~Laurie Devine, Author


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