The Funked-Up Artist - Johanides, Milton
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Based on real historical events at the beginning of the 20th century, the first book in The Cypriot's Treasure series is the story of a young man who changes the course of history with his special talent. As Europe goes to war in 1914 Artie battles to make his mark as an artist, but losing the love of his life to his best friend destroys his confidence, and penniless in a village full of bigots he feels trapped and victimized. When the call goes out for Greek Cypriots to become part of a special force of Muleteers in Macedonia, a special friendship blossoms with another young man who has…mehr

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Based on real historical events at the beginning of the 20th century, the first book in The Cypriot's Treasure series is the story of a young man who changes the course of history with his special talent. As Europe goes to war in 1914 Artie battles to make his mark as an artist, but losing the love of his life to his best friend destroys his confidence, and penniless in a village full of bigots he feels trapped and victimized. When the call goes out for Greek Cypriots to become part of a special force of Muleteers in Macedonia, a special friendship blossoms with another young man who has everything he hasn't. The war against the Central Powers, New York gangsters, and the Greek invasion of Anatolia against Mustapha Kemal's Turks all conspire to stop our hero from reaching his goal, but with the girl of his dreams to motivate him, something much deeper comes to light which seems to be at work in his life. Art, love, satire, politics, philosophy and psychology all come together to make The Funked-Up Artist a must-read for lovers of historical and romantic thrillers with a profound message.
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With The Songs We Sang At Trollopes the story of Artie Papayiannis, as told by his grandson, Euripides Aristopoulos, comes to a conclusion and with it Milton Johanides brings together all the themes of fate, God, destiny, religion, personal ambition and family ties, which have run through the whole trilogy. The idea of immigrants living in post-colonial Britain was not so long ago a done-deal, no longer an issue, but the recent popular nationalism which has swept through the western world brings it into question again, asking questions about sovereignty, nationality and culture. As the first Greek at his school Euripides (or Yuri as he is known) can't help but sense the clash of culture, the weirdness of being British Greek in the context of a traditional English Public School. All the contradictions which plagued his grandfather still exist and may never be eradicated, but the point of the novel is that these matters must be rationalized, accommodated and tolerated. His black friend and fellow pupil, Sogdashi Offwerki, is more victimized than Yuri, but succeeds in supremely rising above that victimization, thus winning Yuri's respect. He learns a valuable lesson from his African pal and uses it to effect a solution to his own problems.