TY - BOOK ID - 78676470 TI - Wheat Songs AU - Rizopoulos, Perry Giuseppe, AU - Meis, William A PY - 2018 SN - 1618117734 9781618117731 9781644692967 1644692961 9781618117717 1618117718 1618117726 9781618117724 PB - Boston, MA DB - UniCat KW - Greek Americans KW - Italian Americans KW - Ethnology KW - Italians KW - Greeks KW - Rizopoulos, Perry Giuseppe, KW - Family. KW - Greece KW - History KW - Bronx. KW - Family and Culture. KW - Greek Civil War. KW - Greek. KW - History. KW - Holocaust. KW - Italian. KW - New York. KW - WWII. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78676470 AB - Wheat Songs is a memoir of two interconnected Greek-American journeys-an actual physical journey for the grandfather, Pericles Rizopoulos, and a philosophical quest by the author, Perry Giuseppe Rizopoulos. When the grandfather, Pericles Rizopoulos, a proud old man, tells his fascinating, tragic and true stories of the Nazi occupation of Greece during World War II and the following Greek Civil War, to his twenty-something grandson, Perry Giuseppe Rizopoulos, Perry's philosophical reflections on his grandfather's stories along with his own memories of growing up in his extended Greek/Italian/American family in the Bronx combine to create an enduring story about the strength created by a tightly-knit family and the powerful values passed down from generation to generation. ER -