Mothers with empty arms

Women of Civil War…Souls that wait fading…

Melpo’s soul is thinking of her Fanoula, a 16-year old girl, fighting in a match with a rifle. The need took her away as a child and life will bring her back as a woman. If there is still life, she is thinking deeply.

Aggela’s soul, secretly kneeling beneath the shrine prays, “Bring them back, Virgin Mary” trembling while whispering, “bring my son and my husband, I am tired, Virgin Mary, weakened by fighting”.

Also, Ariadni’s soul, silent and lost between heaven and the underworld. Her husband and possibly her daughter as well, Katerinoula, could be in the underworld. Over there…over there my place is with them, she is thinking very sadly. There and nowhere else.

After the Daughters of Lismonias, the 3 heroines in this book, forms and degrees of our people, are prey to a brutal civil grief.

496 pages, paperback, by Theodoris Papatheodorou