UK Cypriot author Peter Paphides book is a big hit

6-4-2020 Parikiaki Parikiaki Cool

UK Cypriot author Peter Paphides book is a big hit

I f you’re going to give your memoir the sublime subtitle “A story of chip shops and pop songs”, you had better serve up a tasty hit. Gloriously, the music journalist Pete Paphides’s tale of his formative tussle between his Greek and Brummie identities, shot through with his life-determining discovery of music – his “third parent” – is lip-lickingly, dance-around-the-living-room good.

Ostensibly, Broken Greek begins with the young, timorous Takis (our protagonist, who only later will decide to become Pete) going through a prolonged mute phase. But this story is as much about the experiences of...

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UK Cypriot author Peter Paphides book is a big hit

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