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Menis Koumandareas's verve and daring have found precisely the proper translation in Their Smell Makes Me Want to Cry, which offers an English idiom that is irreverent, wild, and deliciously idiomatic.
Menis Koumandareas. Their Smell Makes Me Want to Cry. Patricia Felisa Barbeito & Vangelis Calotychos, trs. Birmingham, England. Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies, the University of Birmingham. 2004 (released 2005). xiv + 252 pages. £8. ISBN 704-424-258-8
MENIS KOUMANDAREAS is a best-selling author in Greece, with fifteen volumes of original fiction to his credit, aside from translations of Hesse, McCullers, Carroll, Buchner, Faulkner, Melville, Hemingway, Poe, and Fitzgerald. Their Smell Makes Me Want to Cry, published in its Greek original in 1996, has sold over thirty-five thousand copies. His latest, Dyo fores Ellinas (Twice...