Vernacular Dreams

<p><em>Loukakis writes in a style that might be described as chromatic realism ... </em></p><p><em>The stories are very finely crafted indeed.</em></p><p></p><p>-Paul Salzman <em>Australian Book Review</em> </p><p></p><p>A shopkeeper's son rails at his ailing father. A radio announcer's daughter returns to her country hometown. A trouser salesman joins a small rebellion. And a metaphysical explorer struggles with the nature of islands and their islands ...  </p><p></p><p>These are stories of velodromes and mixed businesses of cultures old and new and of ordinary aspirations and their devastating consequences.</p><p></p><p><em>Vernacular Dreams </em>builds on the themes of Angelo Loukakis's award-winning collection <em>For the Patriarch</em> with its stories of identity and alienation hope and nostalgia longing and belonging.</p><p></p>