The FiFi Report 034

Eurydice Street: A Place in Athens by Sofka Zinovieff
The Athens Olympics are around the corner so we may as well get in the Greek mood! And who can resist another armchair travel book even if it’s not about Tuscany? The writer Sofka Zinovieff was interviewed in the latest British Vogue and she sounds a glamour puss and this looks like a great book (not yet released it is on Amazon.co.uk). It’s about her life in Athens when she goes to live there with her expatriate Greek husband and two young daughters. “This book is a fresh, funny and inquiring account of her first year as an Athenian which turns out to be a process of Byzantine complexity. As the months go by, Sofka’s discovers how memories of Athens’ past haunt its present in its music, poetry and history, about the difficult art of catching a taxi, the importance of smoking, the unimportance of time-keeping, and how to get your Christmas piglet cooked at the baker’s.”