A review by ombraluce
Daughter by Pavlos Matesis

5.0

Now a grown woman, an accomplished actress in her own words, Rarau recounts her life as a child in a small village in rural Greece, when she was still Roubini and there was German occupation. In a fresh, almost impertinent tone, perfectly replicating the way an illiterate woman speaks, the author describes the horrors of the German occupation, the suffering inflicted on the population, in the drama of the women who, in order not to starve their children, are forced into prostitution. This is what happens to Roubini's mother, who is later humiliated as a collaborator at the time of liberation. A terrible shock for mother and daughter, which will destroy their minds forever. A truly beautiful book.