Ράε Ντάλβεν: Οι γάμοι κανονίζονται στον παράδεισο. Τόμος 1

In the fall of 1929, Amelia, her mother, and her grandmother are spending a typical afternoon in the living room of their little house in Janina (Ioannina), Greece: sewing, sipping coffee, chatting about marriage and work and education, when Amelia’s older sister, eighteen-year old Esther, bursts in, teary-eyed: she has been denied permission to emigrate to the United States, and thus must stay in Greece and enter into an arranged marriage with Israel, a local butcher twenty-years her senior. Though she does not want to marry him, her father and brother force her, since Israel is wealthy and Esther cannot afford her dowry. In tears, she accepts her fate. […]