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The Scapegoat

A Novel

ISBN-13: 9781612193847

Contributor(s): Karen Emmerich (translated by), Sophia Nikolaidou (author)

Subject: Modern & Contemporary Fiction (Post 1945)

Publisher Imprint: Melville House Publishing

Publication Date: 05-02-2015

Format: Hardback

Availability: Out of stock

£19.99

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About the book

In 1948, the body of an American journalist is found floating in the bay off Thessaloniki. A Greek journalist is tried and convicted for the murder. but when he's released 12 years later, he claims his confession was the result of torture. Flash forward to modern day Greece, where a young, disaffected high school student is given an assignment for a school project: find the truth. Told by the dashing journalist's Greek widow; the mother and sisters of the convicted man; the brutal Thessaloniki Chief of Police; a U.S. Foreign Office investigator and the student.