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Review title: LOVE IN ATHENS
Product review: Koula. Menis Koumandareas. Translated by Kay CicellisKOULA(1978), a novella, is set in modern-day Athens. Its principal characters and only direct speakers are introduced as "a mature woman" and "a young man", who habitually encounter each other on an underground, commuter train, get to know each other, and glide into an affair. Koula, married to Haris, has two, nearly adolescent daughters in a nice suburb. An accountant by day, she laments the "dreary" routine and habit of work, home, and family, but by story's end relishes its secure familiarity .Between the first and last is the relationship of Koula and Dimitri, which brings out surprising emotional and physical changes in Koula. Through their closeness and separation, she becomes aware of a humanitarian connection to self and others--coworkers, family, strangers--and to world events. Her future will be "a long, arduous odyssey"(88), in other words, both uneventful and eventful.
