Harry Petrakis appearing 6/11 @ Newberry Library Chicago

In its play of voices reminiscent of the Winesburg, Ohio of Sherwood Anderson, this sequence of tales from a Greek village is at once tragic, moving, and poetic. The linked stories in which the inhabitants of the village of Fanaron in central Greece spin their tangled tales of love, hate, vengeance and despair create a microcosm of the world. The storytelling craft of Harry Mark Petrakis, praised by writers such as Elie Wiesel, Kurt Vonnegut, and Isaac Bashevis Singer is poignantly and skillfully evidenced in these tales taking place in a land where three of the worlds four great tragedians once wrote their plays.

60 W. Walton Street

Chicago, Illinois

60610

312-255-3520

nbybks@semcoop.com

http://www.semcoop.indiebound.com/event/harry-petrakis-cavafys-stone-other-village-tales