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Broken Greek
Taschenbuch von Pete Paphides
Sprache: Englisch

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'Do you sometimes feel like the music you're hearing is explaining your life to you?'

When Pete's parents moved from Cyprus to Birmingham in the 1960s in the hope of a better life, they had no money and only a little bit of English. The opened a fish-and-chip shop in Acocks Green. The Great Western Fish Bar is where Pete learned about coin-operated machines, male banter and Britishness.

Shy and introverted, Pete stopped speaking from age 4 to 7, and found refuge instead in the bittersweet embrace of pop songs, thanks to Top of the Pops and Dial-A-Disc, From Brotherhood of Man to UB40, from ABBA to The Police, music provided the safety net he needed to protect him from the tensions of his home life. It also helped him navigate his way around the challenges surrounding school, friendships and phobias such as visits to the barber, standing near tall buildings and Rob Hull and Emu.

With every passing year, his guilty secret became more horrifying to him: his parents were Greek, but all the things that excited him were British. And the engine of that realisation? 'Sugar Baby Love', 'Don't Go Breaking My Heart', 'Tragedy', 'Silly Games', 'Going Underground', 'Come On Eileen', and every other irresistibly chilling chart hit blaring out of the chip shop radio.

Never have the trials and tribulations of growing up and the human need for a sense of belonging been so heart-breakingly and humorously depicted.

'Do you sometimes feel like the music you're hearing is explaining your life to you?'

When Pete's parents moved from Cyprus to Birmingham in the 1960s in the hope of a better life, they had no money and only a little bit of English. The opened a fish-and-chip shop in Acocks Green. The Great Western Fish Bar is where Pete learned about coin-operated machines, male banter and Britishness.

Shy and introverted, Pete stopped speaking from age 4 to 7, and found refuge instead in the bittersweet embrace of pop songs, thanks to Top of the Pops and Dial-A-Disc, From Brotherhood of Man to UB40, from ABBA to The Police, music provided the safety net he needed to protect him from the tensions of his home life. It also helped him navigate his way around the challenges surrounding school, friendships and phobias such as visits to the barber, standing near tall buildings and Rob Hull and Emu.

With every passing year, his guilty secret became more horrifying to him: his parents were Greek, but all the things that excited him were British. And the engine of that realisation? 'Sugar Baby Love', 'Don't Go Breaking My Heart', 'Tragedy', 'Silly Games', 'Going Underground', 'Come On Eileen', and every other irresistibly chilling chart hit blaring out of the chip shop radio.

Never have the trials and tribulations of growing up and the human need for a sense of belonging been so heart-breakingly and humorously depicted.

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781529405842
ISBN-10: 152940584X
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Paphides, Pete
Hersteller: Quercus Publishing
Maße: 233 x 154 x 45 mm
Von/Mit: Pete Paphides
Erscheinungsdatum: 05.03.2020
Gewicht: 0,711 kg
Artikel-ID: 118303257
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781529405842
ISBN-10: 152940584X
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Paphides, Pete
Hersteller: Quercus Publishing
Maße: 233 x 154 x 45 mm
Von/Mit: Pete Paphides
Erscheinungsdatum: 05.03.2020
Gewicht: 0,711 kg
Artikel-ID: 118303257
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