The Mermaid Madonna is a novel written by Greek writer

Stratis Myrivilis Efstratios Stamatopoulos (30 June 1890 – 19 July 1969) was a Greek writer. He is known for writing novels, novellas, and short stories under the pseudonym Stratis Myrivilis . He is associated with the "Generation of the '30s". He was nominated ...

. The work has been translated into English by Abbott Rick. The work, set in Greece after the First World War is, according to

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, "poetic" and contains relatively little dialogue.Kirkus Reviews: The Mermaid Madonna. https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/stratis-myrivilis/the-mermaid-madonna/

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