![]() Christos' modest American earnings make them well-to-do in Lia, while his periodic visits yield four girls and, finally, a son. It's traditional, too, for the local men to emigrate in search of work. ![]() A woman was judged by her sense of duty to her aged parents almost as much as her dedication to her children. ![]() At her mother's insistence, Eleni had remained in Lia, a decision Christos accepted. In 1948, when he was nine, Nicholas Gage's mother Eleni Gatzoyiannis was executed by Greek Communist guerrillas, The book is presented, stagily, as the outcome of his search for her killers: What had her secret feelings been? What did she want me to do? Was I capable of it? So we revert to the village of Lia, in mountainous northern Greece, for the story of Eleni's marriage to Greek-American Christos, her wartime trials, and the greater horror of Communist occupation. ![]()
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