Books set in Epirus, Greece

The mountains of north-west Greece: Ioannina and its lake between the wars, and a village on the Albanian border in the civil war.

1 place, 2 books,

1983
Eleni
1983 · Nicholas Gage · memoirLia, Epirus
1948: a mother in the mountain village of Lia is shot for sending her children away.
1953
The End of Our Small Town
La Fin de notre petite ville
1953 · Dimitris Hatzis · storiesalso Ioannina
Ioannina between the wars: tanners, Jews and lake fishermen as the old town dies.

Updated October 2026

Eleni