Rien ne va Plus. Margarita Karapanou

      

      rien ne va plus

      First published in 2009 by

      Clockroot Books

      An imprint of Interlink Publishing Group, Inc.

       46 Crosby Street, Northampton, Massachusetts 01060

      www.clockrootbooks.com

      Text copyright © 1991 by Margarita Karapanou

      Translation copyright © 2009 by Karen Emmerich

      Originally published in Greek by Hermes Publishing in 1991

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Karapanou, Margarita.

      [Rien ne va plus. English]

      Rien ne va plus / by Margarita Karapanou ; translated from the Greek by

      Karen Emmerich. —1st American ed.

      p. cm.

      ISBN 978-1-56656-772-5 (pbk.)

      I. Emmerich, Karen. II. Title.

      PA5622.A696R5413 2009

      889’.334—dc22

      2009010926

      Cover art and design by Ihrie Means

      Printed and bound in the United States of America

      for my cousin, Constantine

      People interpret an action, and each

       interpretation is different. Because

       in the telling and the retelling, people

      reveal not the action, but themselves.

      —Akira Kurosawa’s Rashomon

      Demons have faith,

      but they tremble.

      —Dostoevsky