Things can turn very quickly, my mother says. Be careful who you associate with. Με όλους και με κανέναν. With everyone and with no one. Watch what you do and what you say because they’re always watching – then, one day, they’ll write your name on ‘the list’ and we’ll never see you again.

‘But there is also a time to take a stand’, Yanis Varoufakis’s grandmother warns. ‘When you actually see the fascists, they will be breaking down our door.’..

>>> Read on in Australian Book Review