''The Daughter'' is a novel by

Pavlos Matesis Pavlos Matesis (12 January 1933 – 20 January 2013) was a Greek novelist, playwright and translator. He was born in Divri, a village in the Peloponnese and had a peripatetic youth. He studied acting, music and languages, and taught drama at the ...

, published in Greece in 1990, translated to English in 2002. It takes in the events of the

Second World War World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...

from the perspective of a young Greek girl. It is an international bestseller in nine languages and has sold over 150,000 copies in Greece alone.

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Historical novels 2002 novels Novels set in Greece during World War II {{2000s-WWII-novel-stub