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The scapegoat

"In 1948, the body of an American journalist is found floating in the bay off Thessaloniki. A Greek journalist is tried and convicted for the murder . . . but when he's released twelve years later, he claims his confession was the result of torture. Flash forward to modern day Greece, where a young,...

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Main Author: Nikolaidou, Sophia, 1968- (Author)
Other Authors: Emmerich, Karen
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Greek, Modern (1453- )
Published: Brooklyn : Melville House, 2015.
Subjects:
Journalists > Fiction.
Murder > Investigation > Fiction.
Greece > Fiction.
Mystery fiction.
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Summary:"In 1948, the body of an American journalist is found floating in the bay off Thessaloniki. A Greek journalist is tried and convicted for the murder . . . but when he's released twelve years later, he claims his confession was the result of torture. Flash forward to modern day Greece, where a young, disaffected high school student is given an assignment for a school project: find the truth. Based on the real story of famed CBS reporter George Polk -- journalism's prestigious Polk Awards were named after him -- who was investigating embezzlement of U.S. aid by the right-wing Greek government, Nikolaidou's novel is a sweeping saga that brings together the Greece of the post-war period with the current era, where the country finds itself facing turbulent political times once again. Told by key players in the story -- the dashing journalist's Greek widow; the mother and sisters of the convicted man; the brutal Thessaloniki Chief of Police; a U.S. Foreign Office investigator -- it is the modern-day student who is most affecting of them all, as he questions truth, justice and sacrifice . . . and how the past is always with us."--From publisher's website.
Item Description:Originally published in Greek as "Choreuoun hoi elephantes."
Physical Description:246 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN:9781612193847 (hardcover)
1612193846 (hardcover)
Author Notes:SOFIA NIKOLAIDOU was born in Thessalonika in 1968. She teaches literature and creative writing and writes criticism for various newspapers, including Ta Nea . She has published two collections of short stories and three novels, all of which have been translated into eight languages. Her last novel, Tonight We Have Friends , won the 2011 Athens Prize for Literature, and The Scapegoat was shortlisted for the 2012 Greek State Prize for Fiction.

KAREN EMMERICH 's translations include Rien ne va plus by Margarita Karapanou, Landscape with Dog and Other Stories by Ersi Sotiropoulos, I'd Like by Amanda Michalopoulou, and Poems (1945-1971) by Miltos Sachtouris. She received the 2013 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation for her translation, with Edmund Keeley, of Yannis Ritsos' Diaries of Exile .

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