Finalist for the 2019 Governor General's Literary Award
Myth, folklore, and magic permeate the stories in Marianne Micros'
collection Eye. Set in ancient and modern Greece, and in contemporary
Europe and North America, these tales tell of evil-eye curses, women
healers, ghosts, a changeling, and people struggling to retain or gain
power in a world of changing beliefs. Here you will find stories of a
nymph transformed into a heifer, a young soldier who returns home to
discover that his brother is a changeling, an ancient temple uncovered
during the construction of a church, a betrayed woman lost in a
labyrinth, a wise woman confronting changes to her position when modern
technology comes to her village. Some stories show that people still
seek refuge in myth and folk beliefs; the ways of the past are not gone.
The paving of a village does not destroy the power of the evil eye or
the ability to repel it. A temple in honour of the old gods comes again
to the surface. An unfinished musical composition for piano magically
completes itself whenever it is played.