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A poignant and evocative book of one Greek woman's history of her own - and her nation's - epic have difficulty in the aftermath of World War II. Aliki is one of the previous of her kind, a lamenter who mourns and celebrates the passage of life. She is part of the evolving Greece, one moving continuously away from its rural traditions. To fully capture the fading folk skill of lamenting, an North american researcher asks Aliki to track record her laments, but in response, Aliki sings her own history. It commences in a village in northeast Greece, where Aliki witnesses the occupying Nazi military execute her daddy for stealing squash. Taken in by her good friend Takis' mom, Aliki is signed up with by a Jewish refugee and her child, Stelios. If the village is torched and its own people massacred, Aliki, Takis, and Stelios are able to escape just like the battle is ending. Fleeing across the chaotic surroundings of postwar Greece, the three become a makeshift family. They're destined by companionship and grief but torn aside by betrayal, madness, and heartbreak. Through Aliki's powerful tone of voice, an unforgettable the one which mixes light and dark with wry laughter, My Last Lament offers a fitting eulogy to a way of life and a vivid family portrait of a classic Greek female whose history of love and reduction can be an eternal one.
