![]() The question that arises here is whether there exists another Gage-family subject of power and moment equal to the death of Eleni, or of sufficient dramatic weight to propel a second book of much the same breadth and scope. Gage made no secret of the driving forces behind the writing of that earlier book-his own emotional need to confront at last the entire truth about his mother’s death his towering, Olympian outrage at the murderous injustice of it. Now, with similarly painstaking detail and thoroughness, he has produced a sequel to that work, picking up his family’s story in 1949, when Gage and three of his sisters came to America (the fourth, still in forced conscription behind Communist lines, was to arrive later), and continuing it up to the death of their father, Christos Gatzoyiannis, in 1983, the same year that saw publication of “Eleni.” ![]() ![]() ![]() Nicholas Gage published in 1983 the successful and now widely famous “Eleni,” the story of his mother’s execution by firing squad in 1948 at the hands of Communist guerrillas near the end of the Greek civil war. ![]()
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