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EU Book Club | Back to Delphi: A Novel of Mothers and Their Sons by Ioanna Karystiani


Date: November 27 2021
Time: 2:00pm - 3:30pm
Location: Online (Zoom)
Price: Free


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Organized by the Consulate General of Greece in Vancouver and EUNIC Canada-Vancouver, in collaboration with Alliance Française Vancouver and the Vancouver Public Library.
The next EU Book Club meeting will be moderated by Sophia Karasouli-Milobar (VPL) and Eirini Kotsovili (SFU - SNF CHS), on the Greek novel “Back to Delphi: A Novel of Mothers and Their Sons.” by Ioanna Karystiani

About the Book


“Linos has been granted a five-day furlough from prison, where he is serving a life sentence for murder. His mother has decided to take him to Delphi. A few days spent in that magical place, she thinks, might distract him from his awful fate. She also hopes that this brief time together might be a chance for them to repair what has become a damaged relationship. To that end, she has a difficult revelation to share with her son: ten years earlier, it was she who led the police to him; she is responsible for his arrest and imprisonment. Over the course of five days, as mother and son watch the magnificent ruins of Delphi, matters concerning Linos's childhood that have been buried for decades resurface. This ambitious and magnificent work of literary fiction is a return to the origins of Greek tragedy, a story about guilt and innocence, about the monsters that lurk even in everyday life, and about the complex relationship between mothers and their sons.”

Source: https://www.europaeditions.com/book/9781609450908/back-to-delphi

About the Author


“Ioanna Karystiani was born in Chania, Crete and now lives in Athens. She is the author of four novels and a book of short stories. She also wrote the screenplay for The Brides, directed by Pandelis Vulgaris and produced by Martin Scorsese, and for Estrella mi vida, directed by Costa Gavras. She was awarded the Athens Academy prize for her first novel, Little England (2000), Michael Eleftheriou's English translation of which was published, as The Jasmine Isle, by Europa Editions in 2006.”

Source: https://www.wordswithoutborders.org/contributor/ioanna-karystiani

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EU BOOK CLUB | ONLINE | GREECE | BACK TO DELPHI


Organized by the Consulate General of Greece in Vancouver and EUNIC Canada-Vancouver, in collaboration with Alliance Française Vancouver and the Vancouver Public Library.
The next EU Book Club meeting will be moderated by Sophia Karasouli-Milobar (VPL) and Eirini Kotsovili (SFU - SNF CHS), on the Greek novel “Back to Delphi: A Novel of Mothers and Their Sons.” by Ioanna Karystiani

About the Book


“Linos has been granted a five-day furlough from prison, where he is serving a life sentence for murder. His mother has decided to take him to Delphi. A few days spent in that magical place, she thinks, might distract him from his awful fate. She also hopes that this brief time together might be a chance for them to repair what has become a damaged relationship. To that end, she has a difficult revelation to share with her son: ten years earlier, it was she who led the police to him; she is responsible for his arrest and imprisonment. Over the course of five days, as mother and son watch the magnificent ruins of Delphi, matters concerning Linos's childhood that have been buried for decades resurface. This ambitious and magnificent work of literary fiction is a return to the origins of Greek tragedy, a story about guilt and innocence, about the monsters that lurk even in everyday life, and about the complex relationship between mothers and their sons.”

Source: https://www.europaeditions.com/book/9781609450908/back-to-delphi

About the Author


“Ioanna Karystiani was born in Chania, Crete and now lives in Athens. She is the author of four novels and a book of short stories. She also wrote the screenplay for The Brides, directed by Pandelis Vulgaris and produced by Martin Scorsese, and for Estrella mi vida, directed by Costa Gavras. She was awarded the Athens Academy prize for her first novel, Little England (2000), Michael Eleftheriou's English translation of which was published, as The Jasmine Isle, by Europa Editions in 2006.”

Source: https://www.wordswithoutborders.org/contributor/ioanna-karystiani

Copies available to borrow at:



Vancouver Public Library Vancouver Public Library


North Vancouver City Library North Vancouver City Library


Copies available to purchase at: 



Amazon Amazon


Europa editions Europa editions


Rakuten Kobo Rakuten Kobo


Google Books Google Books


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