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“The Book of Katerina is a gleefully sardonic novelabout illness and family, and how we can never quitecure ourselves of either.” – GLEN JAMES BROWNAward-winning and prolific author of novels, plays,novellas, short story collections and translations.A popular stage adaptation of the novel, directed byYorgos Nanouris, won critical acclaim and was presentedto UK audiences in 2016.’My name is Katerina, and I died by a route dark and lonely,for there was too much in me I could bear no longer.’In this acclaimed Greek novel, Auguste Corteau imagineshis own mother’s inner life, observing with wit and earthyhumour the saga of her extended family’s ups and downs inthe city of Thessaloniki over three generations.From the poverty of the early years through to affluence andaspirations of grandeur, Katerina drags her husband and soninto the chaos of her life: sicknesses are hidden, siblings fightfor love and attention while feckless husbands and unwantedchildren are riven through the family story.