The Green Shore

The Green Shore by Natalie Bakopoulos is a historical fiction novel that follows the effects of the military coup d'etat in 1967. While not a well-known historical movement, or at least one I didn't have knowledge of, it devastated much of Greece (mostly Athens) for many years. A coup d'etat is the......more

I really, really wanted to love this book. There are so many things about it that make it appealing to me. First, it's set in Greece, opening at a party in a neighborhood I lived in, with a character who teaches at the school I taught at. Second, it's set around an interesting historical event, the......more

This book was so dull. I could barely get through it. I really feel bad. How can a book about a coup and a student-led revolution, with lots of illicit sex, be so, well... not compelling.......more

This novel is putatively about the military coup in Greece in 1967 and of the torture of the civilians in the resistance. By the end of the book, I realized that there were only about 3 pates (out of 348) that said anything about the coup or the political issues, and there was less than 10 pages abo......more

This was a book I won from Good Reads, my first one! It happens to be on topic that interests me; Greek stuff:) The author takes us back to the late sixties, early seventies in Greece, during the Junta government. Her characters are a family, a widow with her three children. The author does a great......more