Call me Stratos Harriet Paige McDermott explores his father’s complex

McDermott explores his father’s complex illness and death

from Mandrake the Magician to the bachelor uncle kicked in the ‘stones’ as a child

In this Indian modern classic by the International Booker Prize-winning author

The eerily shocking ending of many of these stories is the moment their protagonists climb on the cattle trains to be transported to Auschwitz

Steam starts to tickle my nose

Call me Stratos Harriet Paige McDermott explores his father’s complexAfter his dramatic divorce and at the age of forty two, Stratos Achtidis returns to his family home to live with his mother and brother. Humiliated and feeling cut off from family and friends, he turns to drink and reminiscences of a over glorified past. Through the eyes of Stratos, the reader experiences the challenges and changes that have taken place in Greek society over the last quarter of a century; the problems of the ordinary working class