Fotini Tsalikoglou is a psychology professor at Panteion University and has published academic works, essays, novels, and tales. During the presentation of her new book “8 hours and 35 minutes,” she declared that “every writer struggles with his/her own darkness.”
The title is based on the duration of the flight New York to Athens and the books content, records memories and experiences of family immigrants who go along with the history of Greece, for almost a century until the present days of the crisis.
The launch of the book took place at the Greek Press and Communication Office in New York by the Society of Greek Writers Association of America and the Athenians. The professor of sociology of Queens College , Nikos Alexiou, talked about the book and his experiences as the “intermediate” element that characterizes the mentality of immigrants.
He made reference to the author and gave the opportunity for drawing attention to images, memories, searches, and realities. All these elements compose the rebellious Greek mentality of the past times, including the present and future as well.
Moreover, the stories start with a trip to Athens of a Greek American who belongs to third-generation immigrants. He discovered his family roots turning back in time, when the war had not yet broken out. It was July of 1940 when Argyriou family had boarded the ocean liner “New Hellas” for America.
This book is a dramatic story that starts from the Asia Minor Catastrophe, wars, dictatorship and carries on to nowadays, and the current crisis.
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