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I'd LikeAuthor: Amanda Michalopoulou Translator: Karen Emmerich Greek Literature Series April 2008 144 pages, Paperback, 978-1-56478-493-3 Retail Paperback Price: Our Paperback Price: $10.00—20% OFF! 
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Book Description
The thirteen short stories that make up Amanda Michalopoulou’s I’d Like read like versions of an unwritten novel: each riveting tale resonates with the others, and yet a sense of their connectedness remains tantalizingly out of grasp. Instead, we are presented with a kaleidoscope of characters and events, signs and emotions, linked by the uncanny repetition of certain details: blossoming almond trees, red berets, bleeding feet, accidents small and large. Michalopoulou’s characters are both patently fictitious and profoundly real, as they move through a world in which even the smallest of everyday occurrences can take on enormous significance. I’d Like offers a touching, utterly unique reading experience from one of Greece’s most innovative young storytellers.About the Author
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Amanda Michalopoulou was born in Athens, Greece in 1966. She has had a daily newspaper column in Kathimerini since 1990, and is the author of four novels, two short story collections, and a successful series of children’s books. She has won various awards, in particular for her first short story collection, Life is Colourful Outside, and her first novel, Wishbone Memories. She currently lives in Athens. |
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About the Translator
| Karen Emmerich, a professor of both Greek and writing at Columbia University, has translated work by a variety of Greek novelists and poets of the twentieth century. |
Praise
"An innovative collection of short stories that overturns expectations and surprises the reader, full of sarcasm, humor, and anguish, with a sob that escapes at the end—after all, that's what life is like."—Eleni Gika, Ethnos"Michalopoulou's artless, lively style endows her narratives with sweetness, vivacity and sensitivity, softening their sharp edges. Of course, beneath the narrator’s stubbornly cheerful tone we can discern a constant but muffled lament for a childhood now lost. . . . In this latest book, Michalopoulou treats her thematic obsession—the issue of writing itself—with greater daring and ingenuity than ever before."—Lina Panteleon, Eleftherotypia
"Moving against the current, Amanda Michalopoulou calls her new book a collection of short stories, though its thirteen texts read as a unified whole. After we've finished I'd Like, we realize that we have to read it again from the beginning, to reevaluate the information we've been given. And therein lies the appeal and innovation of this work."—Elizabeth Kotzia, Kathimerini