The Greek Patient

About her previous novel Secret sister (published the US and Uk among other countries): 

“…contemporary Greek writing is currently awash with interpretations of “the crisis” and attempts to contextualise and understand the unravelling of a country with a complex past and an increasingly heart-broken present. The Secret Sister is the story of third-generation Greek American Jonathan as he takes his first trip to the motherland. It is a slim novel, but hallucinatory and intense. Reading it feels like stepping into another person’s dream, and indeed in a recent lecture given in Athens Tsalikoglou told a packed room: “Greeks feel like they are in a bad dream”. It is a story of painful memories, both collective and personal, that will no longer be kept quiet.” 

The Secret Sister, brought to us by Europa Editions, is about the legacy of trauma. It gives us a powerful taste of the writing that has been fired into existence in Greece by the dramatic changes of late, and it leaves me, for one, wanting to read much more.' 

—The Independent