10 Days at Crazy Gran’s
"A novel about xenophobia and the constant moving of people from one place to another, about habits that change from place to place and from one period to another. It is a novel about harmonious co-existence.”
Laurie Keza. 10 Days at Crazy Gran’s. Athens: Metaixmo, 2016 (Εφηβικό Μ ΚΕΖ)
*The book is suitable for Junior High School 7th and 8th grade students*
“Virginia and Caroline’s parents need to be away on business during the same ten-day period. The girls, therefore, go to stay with their American grandmother at her farm in Vilia: a grandmother who has traveled from Toulouse to Zaragoza on motorbike, who was present at the May 1968 Paris uprisings, who has friends from Japan and Sweden. When they reach the farm, the girls learn that their grandmother has begun taking classes in Arabic from her friend and neighbor, a Lebanese who breeds horses. During those ten day, the girls will take a stationary trip on the old motorbike; they will belly dance; they will pitch a teepee in the garden; they will find photos of their grandfather from his time in Africa and wonder whether he took advantage of the natives in order to get rich. This is a novel about xenophobia and the constant moving of people from one place to another, about habits that change from place to place and from one period to another. It is a novel about harmonious co-existence.”
- from Biblionet
A little about the author
"Laurie Keza was born in Montreal in 1969. She graduated high school from the Evangeliki School (N. Smyrni) and studied French Literature at the University of Athens. In 1988 she worked for the Presidency of the Republic. From 1989 to 1993, she worked at Mega Channel as a production assistant on the news. From 1992 to the present she works at the newspaper “To Vima,” where initially she was a book editor and as of 2009 a columnist with a daily column entitled “Common Sense.” She publishes and directs the literary review “here’s an apple” and has organized four workshops for new writers. She worked at NET as editor-in-chief for the program about books, “For a Seat on a Shelf.” She has been a committee member for the National Literary Prize and the National Prize for Children’s Literature. In her free time, she write short stories for young readers.”
- from Biblionet
Read more in Greek …
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Κριτικές – Παρουσιάσεις
Μαριλένα Αστραπέλλου, Απόδραση με τη γιαγιά, Περιοδικό "BHmagazino", 11.12.2016
Μαρίζα Ντεκάστρο, Η φαντασία στην εξουσία!, www.oanagnostis.gr, 1.12.2016
Ξενοφών Μπρουντζάκης, Ιστορίες για νέους αναγνώστες, "Το Ποντίκι", 24.11.2016
Άλλα βιβλία της συγγραφέως
Τα κατορθώματα της Ρόζας Δελλατόλα: Υπόθεση Laurus. Αθήνα: Διόπτρα, 2013.
Η Κική και η Φωφώ. Αθήνα: Μεταίχμιο, 2011.
Καλύτερα καρούμπαλα. Αθήνα: Εκδόσεις Παπαδόπουλος, 2011.
Η ώρα είναι εκατό. Αθήνα: Εκδόσεις Παπαδόπουλος, 2010.
Της ζωής τα γυρίσματα. Αθήνα: Άγκυρα, 2010.
Ενδιαφέρουσες ιστοσελίδες
http://www.lifo.gr/team/bitsandpieces/31768 (Συνέντευξη της συγγραφέως στο LIFO)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-c_GXY06GA (Δεκάλεπτο απόσπασμα από εκπομπή της ΕΤ3 στην οποία η συγγραφέας μιλάει για το βιβλίο της)
http://www.huffingtonpost.gr/2017/03/08/life-koinonia-pagkosmia-hmera-ths-gynaikas-lori-keza_n_15209012.html (Συνέντευξη της συγγραφέως στο Haffingtonpost)
http://www.talcmag.gr/sinenteyxeis/synenteyxi-me-ti-laurie-keza/ (Συνέντευξη της συγγραφέως στο site Talcmag)
http://www.typosthes.gr/gr/politismos/article/122701/i-lori-keza-fernei-tin-trelogiagia-sti-thessaloniki/ (Συνέντευξη της συγγραφέως στον Τύπος Θεσσαλονίκης)
http://www.tovima.gr/editors/editor/?edid=939 (Άρθρα της δημοσιογράφου Λ. Κέζα στην εφημερίδα Το Βήμα)
