God's Snake por Spanidou, Irini - 1986

Penguin Publishing Group. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Penguin Books, 1987. VG- in wraps. Bit of rubbing/edgewear; few small dings/creases; PO name inked top pageblock. 000022122

Penguin Books. Used - Good. Good condition. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Penguin Books, November 1987. Paperback. USED Good.

Penguin Books, 1-06. Paperback. Good.

New York: Penguin, 1987 Book. Fine. Trade Paperback. 1st Pbk Edition. Set amid the arid landscape and stony resentments of Greece in the aftermath of its bloody civil war, this electrifying novel unfolds a series of interconnecting modern-day fables about childhood and family, love and betrayal. God's Snake is the story of the inventive, courageous Anna, a young girl who has inherited both the skepticism of classical Athens and the fierce stoicism of Sparta. It is also the story of Anna's parents: her mother, a woman as remote as she is seductive, and her father, a misogynist army officer who, when Anna cries, tells her, "we are not born to be comforted." As Anna picks her way through this emotional minefield, she encounters people and animals that possess the revelatory powers of figures in a dream: the snakes her father's adjutant kills as emissaries of the Devil, a poetry-loving general; a haunted girl whose mother dies of tuberculosis; a frozen crow that miraculously comes… Ler mais

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.