AustLit

'In my family there were eight of us. My brother George died when he was mauled by a wild boar as he slept in his crib on the verandah. Katerina died when she got sick with the flu and was too weak from poverty to fight it. My father was starved and worked to death as a prisoner of war by people he once recognised as friends and neighbours. That left five of us. My mother, my eldest brother Kyri, myself, my sister Georgina named after our dead brother and the youngest Angeliki.' (Publication abstract)