"It was Christmas '37 when the ship docked at Piraeus and disgorged me and my trunk onto the quay of the commercial harbor.... I was now just like the immigrants you'd sometimes see on Ellis Island, back in my own country."

An injured detective flees New York to land in Athens at the dawn of war. He'll face desolation, oppression, music, magic.... Sample the first English translation of an acclaimed Greek novel, plus an author interview.