A transporting, good-humored, and revealing account of Greece s dire troubles, r
eported from the mountain villages, idyllic islands, and hardscrabble streets th
at define the country today
In recent years, small Greece, often associated wi
th ancient philosophers and marble ruins, whitewashed villages and cerulean seas
, has been at the center of a debt crisis that has sown economic and social ruin
, spurred panic in international markets, and tested Europe s decades-old projec
t of forging a closer union.
