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The past isn’t over. It isn’t even past. For Jonathan, a third generation Greek American who has never set foot in his ancestral homeland, a journey to crisis-ridden contemporary Greece will unleash a century of buried family secrets.
From the burning quay at Smyrna to present day Manhattan, the Argyriou family has been pursued by disaster. In the 1922 Greco-Turkish War, little Frosso and her sister Erasmia flee as Turkish soldiers descend on their village. Orphaned and destitute, the two girls have only each other to rely on as they scrape together a life in the immigrant slums around Athens. Eighteen years later, Europe is stewing and Erasmia is offered a chance for a new life in America by her fiancé Menelaos. Compelled to leave by the impending war, Erasmia boards the ship “New Greece” with a heavy heart, but before the ship reaches harbor her grief takes hold and Erasmia throws herself into the ocean. A forlorn Meneloas returns to Greece and marries his beloved’s younger sister, Frosso, and the couple eventually settles in New York. They bestow on their only daughter the haunted name of her departed aunt but the burden of family history ultimately destroys Frosso and compels her son Jonathan to uncover the shadowy history of the Argyriou family.
Fotini Tsalikoglou’s poetic, atmospheric novel explores the blurred line between history and memory. Psychologically complex and deeply moving, The Secret Sister is a brilliant mediation on the irrepressible need for people to tell stories.
- Sales Rank: #2695230 in Books
- Published on: 2015-01-06
- Released on: 2015-01-06
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.26" h x .40" w x 5.29" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 128 pages
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"A hauntingly poignant look at the secret lives and memories of those with whom we consider ourselves closest and the ways in which places can be defined for generations by the secrets we keep and the truths we reveal." — World Literature Today
About the Author
Born in Athens, Greece, Fotini Tsalikoglou studied psychology at the University of Geneva. She is the author of many celebrated novels published in Greece, including Eros Pharmakopoios, I Dreamed I Was Well, and I, Martha Freud. Tsalikoglou is currently a professor of psychology at Panteion University in Athens and a regular contributor to the Athens daily To Vima. The Secret Sister is her English language debut.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
"The land has surprises in store for us, Jonathan. Surprise is the antidote to fear"--Amalia.
By Mary Whipple
(3.5 stars) Greek author Fotini Tsalikoglou, in her first novel to be translated into English, introduces a man we come to know as Jonathan, along with the first of his family's many mysteries. Jonathan has just boarded a plane from New York City to Athens, and while sitting next to an empty seat in the plane, he speaks to it as if it were "Amalia." He is reminiscing about an unnamed woman who dragged him, as a small child, to museums all over New York to see Greek statues and pediments, but he is puzzled because, despite this behavior toward Greek art, she was clearly "revolted by her country." Her name was Lale Andersen, a name she chose when she changed it from the original, and she was Jonathan's "mutant mother."
What follows is a complex conversation in which two people, Jonathan and his sister Amalia, through changing times and places, discuss with each other their shared childhoods and differing memories. The author's use of italics to set off one speaker from the other is helpful, as Jonathan remembers his grandparents, their emigration from Greece to New York, and his own life as a boy without a father. The novel jumps around without warning, as he comments to himself about the plane trip and his decision to travel to Greece, interspersing observations in the present with memories from his past. Ultimately, the novel becomes Jonathan's story, and the past haunts every aspect of it.
The narrative, a series of brief reminiscences by Jonathan, Amalia, and their grandmother, requires the reader to pay careful attention to the text as it explores the complex meanings of identity and the importance of the past in determining one's future. Because it is so short (only 116 pages), and so limited in its exploration of the background of the several characters, the reader must depend on the author (and translator, Mary Kitroeff) for the context clues which explain Jonathan's journey, reveal his state of mind as he begins it, and justify his need for Amalia as a companion on the journey.
For some readers the information provided here may not be enough to make the main character's decision to go to Greece feel like the natural outgrowth of his experience, or make the ultimate fates of two other characters feel inevitable. The writing is intense, psychological, and filled with the mysteries of life both in the present and in the past, and how much influence these mysteries may have on the main characters is suggested, rather than stated. Some readers may diverge from the author's suggestions that we cannot escape the past - that we become who we are by the accidents of fate. Others may feel that we have more control over the present than what we see in the lives of Jonathan and Amalia. Many tantalizing questions remain as the novella comes to a close. Readers looking for a change of pace and an analysis of how much we may all be connected to and controlled by family secrets will find this novella a treasure trove of suggestions.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Memories and the present
By Eva Ing
As you delve into “The Secret Sister”, the reader is given a heads up on the content based on the haunting book cover. It’s an emotional story and shows the feelings and concerns of both the young woman Frosso and later the life of her older sister Erasima. Later the son, Jonathon makes his journey to Greece and we see his connection to his mother’s home country.
Thank you GoodReads for the book.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
The past isn't over yet
By Waheed Rabbani
In January 2013, Jonathan Argyriou, a Manhattan-born third generation Greek-American, boards a plane in New York for Athens. Jonathan is travelling to Greece to learn more about his family. He was brought up by his grandparents and his alcoholic mother, and he doesn’t quite understand the relationship between his grandmother’s younger sister and his grandfather. Jonathan converses with his sister, Amalia, imagining she is occupying the empty seat next to him. We thus learn of the tragedies faced by the Argyriou family. Their ruin had begun during the 1922 Greco-Turkish War, when two orphaned sisters, little Erasmia and Frosso, had to flee Smyrna village for Athens. While Erasmia eventually manages to reach America, Frosso does not. By the time the planes reaches Athens, from his soul-searching and brainstorming with his sister, past memories flood back to Jonathan such that he himself recollects a good deal of his ancestry.
As noted on this book’s cover, Fortini Tsalikoglou’s novel indeed “explores the blurred line between history and memory.” While the short length of the novel does not permit detailed character development, the stream-of-consciousness writing style admirably fleshes out the story. Some readers might question Jonathan’s motive in embarking on such a long journey of discovery; however, it is his psychological frame of mind, muddled by family secrets, that Tsalikoglou portrays as one from which he cannot escape. Similar to Faulkner’s famous quote, Tsalikoglou notes: “The past is never over. It isn’t even past.” Nevertheless, the narrative is not an easy read, and were it not for the book’s evocative cover, and the informative flap and back cover text, the plot would take a huge effort to comprehend.
This review first appeared in the HNR magazine issue 73 (August 2015)
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