As soon as he finished primary school in 1936, at the age of twelve, little Sideris left his village, Delagratsia in Syros, and ended up in Lyon. He stayed ten years in France, boarding in a monastery. He took the Baccalauréat and obtained a license to teach French. He returned to Greece after the war, as a monk of the Catholic order of Lasallian monks. He served three years in the Greek army on the front line of the civil war, in Karpenisi.
In the mid-fifties he left the solitary life and received a degree in mathematics from the University of Athens. He worked for thirty years in a large private school, teaching French and mathematics. Twice he came literally to the brink of death, but finally got his pension. He died in 50 from the effects of the operations he had done in the 2003s.
This book talks about his life in Syros, his education before the war, living conditions in France during the war, life in Greece during the civil war and the period of reconstruction that followed. It describes the transformation of Greek society from agricultural to industrial and then to consumer society. Finally, it describes the great struggles that our parents did, to conquer the standard of living that we today take for granted.
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