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ELENI by Nicholas Gage; Random House; 470 pages...
...those children was eight-year-old Nikola. Transported to the U.S. to join a father he had never met, the boy discovered the cathartic power of words when he wrote a school essay about his mother's death. He took the name Nicholas Gage and grew up to become an investigative reporter and foreign correspondent for the New York Times. Gradually, the grief of his childhood returned as an obsession. In 1979 Gage quit the newspaper to learn how and why his mother had been killed. He planned a crime of vengeance. He failed at that...
...book, part thriller, part history, part romantic epic, is a remarkable feat of technique, and of soul. Gage deftly shifts among hundreds of characters, dozens of locales, and a welter of big-scale narratives-World War II, the Greek civil war, the exodus of Mourgana refugees in every direction-that in lesser hands would overwhelm the story of one woman's family. He manages to be fair to people he has every reason to despise: he evokes the grievances of the guerrillas as fully as their treachery, the gullibility of the villagers as well as their jealousy and spite...
...Gage tells these stories vividly, unsparingly. He is equally candid about the catastrophic effects of his grandfather's hardheartedness, his uncle's greed, his father's preference for being a family man in Greece but a bachelor in America. During passages in which he debates inconclusively the nature of justice, Gage admits his own base impulses: he smuggled a gun into Greece in order to murder the now aged "judge" who had condemned his mother. At the last moment, having spat in the man's face, Gage renounced the crime because it would put his gratification...
...blow to Harvard official middle 20 was another bulldozer of a Cornell check, this one by Peter Gage which put Scott Fusco out of the game...