We are taught that freedom is our fundamental human right since our childhood. However, how easy is it to actually obtain it in reality? Who has the right to create a free space for themselves; live in their own will? Dimitris Sotakis in his novel The Miracle of Breath with a terrific irony deals with the pressure of the economic crisis in Greece and how it has affected individuals and people’s inherent habit to submit; Annabel Abbs with her novel The Joyce Girl where she tells the story of Lucia Joyce who cannot realize her talent freely because of her subordination to her family and Adalet Gundar-Goshen with her novel Waking Lions telling the story of a surgeon who is in between the freedom and the choices he made will talk about the compensation that we pay for the dream of freedom.
Leave a comment...