ASIN: B009Z0S5K8
Publisher: Amazon.com Services LLC
Pages: 214
"Cretans – Stories of a Beach" is the story of events following a native son's return from London to Crete, the island of his ancestors. Alexis Mantheakis returns to the ancient Mediterranean island from where his family emigrated to Africa and the United States a century ago. He decides to build a villa by the sea at Lalaria, a deceptively idyllic hamlet on the northern coast of Crete where numerous hilarious and some tragic events subsequently take place. The local peasants’ lives change drastically when the author introduces an upmarket British tour company to the hamlet. "Cretans" is a series of anecdotal stories about the author, his British clients and the locals whom he observes at Lefteris taverna and from the terrace of his villa overlooking Lalaria Beach. Colourful and often eccentric characters, indigenous and foreign, cross the writer's path over the next ten years. We meet ...
