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  • Published: 12 March 2019
  • ISBN: 9781939810212
  • Imprint: NY Review Books
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 250
  • RRP: $35.00

Good Will Come From the Sea





A collection of blistering, darkly humorous stories that upend the idyllic image of the Greek holiday island.

A collection of blistering, darkly humorous stories that upend the idyllic image of the Greek holiday island.

Seeking to escape the paralyzing effects of the Greek economic crisis, a group of Athenian friends move to an Aegean island in the hopes of starting over. Viewed with suspicion and disdain by the locals, they soon find themselves enmeshed in the same vicious cycle of money, power, and violence they thought they had left behind.

  • Published: 12 March 2019
  • ISBN: 9781939810212
  • Imprint: NY Review Books
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 250
  • RRP: $35.00

Praise for Good Will Come From the Sea

"In much the way John Steinbeck laid open the migrant worker culture of mid-century California, Ikonomou exposes us to the realities of Greek poverty, the bitter taste of politics, and the generational divide. These stories are pitch-perfect, with sullen anger, wit, sharp humor, and tragicomedy captured in sharply crafted scenes that linger in the memory."--Los Angeles Review of Books for Something Will Happen, You'll See (Archipelago Books, 2016)

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