Shepherd's Proverbs

Beneath the grapevine his great-grandfather had planted, Thanos Aposperitis listened to the old shepherd's stories and proverbs. Old Fotis, born in 1880, carried in his words the experience of a life on the land and the folk wisdom of earlier generations.Those remembered sayings inspire the 110 short stories in this collection. Set in the villages and countryside of an earlier Greece, they follow ...