When the Tree Sings

232-page paperback / 4.5" x 7" / ISBN 9781589881686 / Publication Date: 10/11/2022 "Extraordinary . . . A modern classic."—Los Angeles Times "Remarkable . . . A highly original and eloquent story."—Boston Globe "The effect is haunting . . . bitter and beautiful."—New York Times Set in an impoverished Greece at the cruel time of the German occupation during WWII, When the Tree Sings is a boy’s eye view of war’s terrible ways. The young narrator’s parents are dead, his paternal home destroyed; he lives with his aged grandmother. With barely enough to survive on, they struggle to avoid death—and we, the readers, are given the life of the village, filled with its vivid characters: Flisvos, the narrator’s one-eyed playmate; Lekas the Informer; Uncle Iasson, who is in love with Lekas’s red-haired mistress; Dando, who dies of fright; a mysterious figure known as the puppeteer. Mundane horrors mix with terrible cruelty and occasional hysterical levity. Our starving narrator is offered a chestn