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marinazala's review against another edition
3.0
** Books 57 - 2022 **
This books to accomplish Tsundoku Books Challenge 2022 and Baca Keliling Dunia
3 of 5 stars!
this books contains of four stories that setting in greece when financial crisis happen. So most of the stories about the citizen hopeless to government, loss, grieve and corruption.. It is kinda gives us perspectives what actually happen at Greece
This books to accomplish Tsundoku Books Challenge 2022 and Baca Keliling Dunia
3 of 5 stars!
this books contains of four stories that setting in greece when financial crisis happen. So most of the stories about the citizen hopeless to government, loss, grieve and corruption.. It is kinda gives us perspectives what actually happen at Greece
shrunonymous's review against another edition
5.0
Moving, morose and mesmerizing, all at once. Translation was top notch.
ariesbookshelf's review against another edition
emotional
hopeful
reflective
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? N/A
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.0
emilyacres's review against another edition
3.0
Though we all agree that these days, with the country in the gutter, a real man, a hero, isn't the guy who fights evil, but the guy who learns to live with it.
Good Will Come from the Sea is a meditative collection of four interconnected short stories centered around the impact of the economic crash in Greece. All the characters live on the same small island and each is in the throes of deep internal turmoil due to the personal devastations of the recession. Crime, poverty and loss connect these stories as much as the characters do. The stories are fueled by anger and impotence. The men rail or despair against their current circumstances in their internal monologues.
The style is an unconventional stream of consciousness. For example, one story's narrator experiences much of his thoughts as though being interviewed in front of a live studio audience, no doubt as a crutch to his loneliness. Some stories I found a bit more opaque than others and so had a harder time grasping the full significance of the given part—and there is so much significance to these stories. A couple misses hardly diminished how hard-hitting and brutal this book can be. It showed me a new Greece, the one behind the white-washed hotels of Santorini and turquoise waters of Mykonos.
rixenr's review against another edition
4.0
Correct me if I’m wrong, but there aren’t many contemporary Greek writers published in English post-economic crisis, so this collection of stories is important stuff. Highly recommend.
kateofmind's review against another edition
5.0
This is my first read from the long list for the Best Translated Book Award, and it has set the bar really high. These four stories are at turns shocking, funny, heartbreaking and feel weirdly prophetic during the current pandemic, almost like science fiction minus its usual accoutrements (see In Milton Lunky Territory). More soon at Kate of Mind
alexlanz's review against another edition
Amazing, savagely bleak political allegories yet realistic.