Friday 27 January 2017

Swiss Books - the Greek Wall

Another find at the Europe House 
https://prohelvetia.ch/en/2016/10/the-greek-wall/

I really need to get a copy of The Greek Wall by Nicolas Verdan..
“What is so beguiling about this novel, is its ability to reflect back to the reader the air, the colour of the sky, the smells, the appearance and the mood of people and things, the fear of some, the bluster of others, the nobility of a few.” LE TEMPS
A few kilometres along the Greek-Turkish border, there’s a gap where refugees can still slip through, but not for long, because soon the ‘Greek Wall’ will close off the route for these unhappy people, and perhaps banish this much coveted human trade.
Read a little to capture the story and you will see because of my project work of the Family Link Up of a refugee family why I am pulled to get a copy of this book to read it fully. 

Il vient, de ce côté du monde, une souffrance. Chaque nuit, elle s’insinue en silence dans le cours de l’Evros, avant d’épandre dans les champs, à l’aube, ses graines transparentes à la lumière de l’autre rive.

From that side of the world comes distress. Silently each night it invades the course of the river Evros; then, at dawn, it spreads across the fields, its seeds transparent in the light from the other bank.