Call me Stratos Harriet Paige In this Indian modern classic

In this Indian modern classic by the International Booker Prize-winning author

while the narrator struggles to find the words he’s been holding back

Steam starts to tickle my nose

” — Other Poetry

McDermott explores his father’s complex illness and death

Call me Stratos Harriet Paige In this Indian modern classicAfter his dramatic divorce and at the age of forty two, Stratos Achtidis returns to his family home to live with his mother and brother. Humiliated and feeling cut off from family and friends, he turns to drink and reminiscences of a over glorified past. Through the eyes of Stratos, the reader experiences the challenges and changes that have taken place in Greek society over the last quarter of a century; the problems of the ordinary working class