“An evocative and moving portrait of how history affects people’s lives”

‒Publishers Weekly

An aged refuge from Asia Minor who went through fire in life, a daughter who follows the path she hasn’t chosen, and an unknown grand-daughter who comes face to face with her origins: Three women recount the story of three generations of Greek immigration.

Walking the line of magical realism and pure mythology, there is a peculiar, almost grotesque element that binds everything up in the novel: The Seventh Garment, a cultural tradition of burial, a memory of murder, an instance of catharsis. But when the Seventh Garment will disappear, the world will come upside down; only the women will be able to voice this loss.

“What I wanted to do was to give voice to the minor stories that silently exist in parallel to the major one, History, through the eyes of women who lived silently, in the margins.”  ―Fakinou

Kastaniotis, 1983, 136 P.