“Afternoons in Ithaka” is the title of Spiri Tsintziras’ new book which was published by ABC Books. The book is about the journey in the life of a 40 year-old woman born in Melbourne.
The protagonist attempts this journey in a rather original way. She combines her personal experiences with the beauties of Greece and with Greek food.
The book was released by the publishing house of the Australian broadcasting service ABC Books. The author noted that whoever reads her book will become anxious to visit Greece.
Mrs. Tsintziras speaks of the way she was brought up in Neos Kosmos:
“When I was a teenager I thought being Greek was really uncomplimentary. My father was quite strong and strict in many ways. So for me being Greek, while it had a lot of beautiful things, it also felt very limiting and very strict. I guess my father was living in the Greece of the 1960s, so me being a fairly independent and feisty young woman was challenging for him. The first time I went to Greece as an adult, I discovered the Greece that my dad knew had changed, it was more liberal and exciting. I had to sort of find that Greece to be able to reconcile myself back in Melbourne. It took me a lot of time to embrace what it meant to be Greek, I had to find that out for myself. Not through my father.”
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