Posted on: 01-04-2012 | Category:
The Guardian – review of The House on Paradise Street

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/mar/30/first-novels-roundup-review?newsfeed=true Zinovieff’s intense, multi-generational story covers 70 years of Greek history. When charismatic journalist Nikitas Perifanis dies suddenly, his third wife, English Maud, is bewildered by the circumstances. The answer lies in the complex relationships and conflicted alliances within the high-ranking Perifanis family, stretching back to the German occupation of the second world war and

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Posted on: 05-03-2012 | Category:
The Observer – review of The House on Paradise Street

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/mar/04/house-paradise-street-sofka-zinovieff-review When Nikitas Perifanis is killed in a car crash in Athens, his English wife, Maud, tracks down the mother, Antigone, who had left him as a three-year-old. Antigone returns to Greece too late for her son, but in time to attempt a reconciliation with her family and her past: from youthful rebellion under the Nazi occupation,

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Posted on: 09-04-2012 | Category:
The Daily Mail – review of The House on Paradise Street

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/books/article-2125601/DEBUT-FICTION.html?ito=feeds-newsxml ‘I wondered how I could get close to the truth, but I also feared knowing.’ The dilemma facing Maud after her husband Nikitas, an historian, dies in a car accident outside Athens underpins Sofka Zinovieff’s thought-provoking, moving novel. Natural curiosity about why her husband had driven out to the coast on the night he

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Posted on: 09-04-2012 | Category:
The Independent – review of The House on Paradise Street

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/the-house-on-paradise-street-by-sofka-zinovieff-7608847.html For the last 60 or so years, historical fiction has often served to exalt Britain and the Allied forces’ enlightened participation in the Second World War. Less celebrated is the cold October day in 1944 when Churchill and Stalin met in Moscow to carve up Eastern Europe between them. Romania, Bulgaria and Hungary became

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Posted on: 13-08-2012 | Category:
Protagon – review of The House on Paradise Street (in Greek)

Άλλη μία φρέσκια κυκλοφορία, με πολύ Ελληνικό ενδιαφέρον και καλές κριτικές στην Βρετανία όπου πρωτοεκδόθηκε – μέχρι και ο αυστηρός Economist το προτείνει ανεπιφύλακτα! Διπλή αφήγηση εδώ, από δύο γυναίκες. Η μία, η Μοντ είναι μία τυπική, κοντά στα 40 φλεγματική Αγγλίδα που έχει βρεθεί στην Ελλάδα διότι παντρεύτηκε από παθιασμένο έρωτα έναν Έλληνα δημοσιογράφο,

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Posted on: 09-07-2012 | Category:
Kathimerini – review of The House on Paradise Street (in Greek)

Οι πληγές του εμφυλίου πολέμου στην Ελλάδα όχι μόνο για τους πρωταγωνιστές του, αλλά και για τις επόμενες γενιές, στοιχειώνουν το «Σπίτι στην Οδό Παραδείσου» (κυκλοφορεί στα ελληνικά από τις εκδόσεις Ψυχογιός), το πρώτο μυθιστόρημα της Σόφκα Ζινόβιεφ, Αγγλίδας ανθρωπολόγου και συγγραφέως, που ζει στην Ελλάδα. Πρόκειται για το τρίτο βιβλίο της μετά την «Οδό

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