Aris Fioretos – »Mary«

In »Mary« Swedish novelist Aris Fioretos tells the story of a woman arrested in Greece in November 1973, the time of Greece’s military dictatorship, and her experiences with hunger, cold and torture in the secret police’s prisons. The motive of the pomegranate on the cover and fly leaf of the book symbolizes Mary’s rich and abundant personality beneath her life of hardship.