Mothers and Sons

“[A] wise and gently funny memoir.” —The New Yorker“In this poetic account, Greek novelist Kallifatides…spins a weeklong visit with his elderly mother into a moving reflection on legacy…a stunning ode to mother and motherland alike.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)“The kind of book that reverberates for the reader long after it’s read…[Kallifatides’s] elegant and evocative writing is translated beautifully from the Swedish by Marlaine Delargy…a moving meditation on the poignancy of loving an aging parent while the opportunity still presents itself.” —Shelf AwarenessPraise for Another Life:“Charming…Kallifatides has a novelist’s ear for anecdote, a dramatist’s for dialogue, and a poet’s for aphorism.” —Times Literary Supplement“In his elegiac, tender meditation on migrations, both geographic and psychic—from one country to another, from one language to another, from youth to old age, from the time of the present to memories of the past—Kallifatides offers his reader a personal politics of the human.” —Siri Hustvedt, author of The Blazing World

Theodor Kallifatides has published more than forty works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry that have been translated around the world. Born in Greece in 1938, Kallifatides immigrated in 1964 to Sweden, where he began his literary career. As a translator, he has brought August Strindberg and Ingmar Bergman to Greek readers, and Giannis Ritsos and Mikis Theodorakis to Swedish ones. He has received numerous awards for his work in both Greece and Sweden. His previous books include Another Life and The Siege of Troy. He lives in Sweden.

Marlaine Delargy studied Swedish and German at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, and she taught German for almost twenty years. She has translated novels by many authors, including Kristina Ohlsson; Helene Tursten; John Ajvide Lindqvist; Therese Bohman; Theodor Kallifatides; Johan Theorin, with whom she won the Crime Writers’ Association International Dagger in 2010; and Henning Mankell, with whom she won the Crime Writers’ Association International Dagger in 2018. Marlaine has also translated nine books in Viveca Sten’s Sandhamn Murders series and two books in her re Murders series.

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