Comments "The Feasts of Memory by Elias Kulukundis is a rich literary banquet. It's a fascinating travel memoir that echoes the writings on Greece of Henry Miller and Lawrence Durrell, a revealing family chronicle of one of the great Greek shipping dynasties, and a sharply etched portrait of Aegean island life as it was lived for centuries but is now rapidly fading away." -- Nicholas Gage, author of Eleni "Elias Kulukundis is a born story-teller, one of those rare and enchanting people who instinctively disentangle the essential story from the confusion of past reminiscences ... and give it a new lease of life." -- Helen Vlachos, The Spectator "I read it with delight and recognition and could hardly put it down. It captures wonderfully not only the long, dark-rooted traditions of island Greece with its pride, humor, irony and tragedy; it gives also the especial flavor of the Dodecanese." -- Mary Renault "An excellent anecdotal account of Kasiot history, lore, and customs, some of them as savage as Homer's; and beyond that, (the book) is a beautiful and imaginative exploration of a writer's relationship to his origins." -- The New Yorker "Kulukundis is the last of the big spenders - what a beautiful job. It's fantasy and yet it's not fantasy. It's a personal history, which forces the present to have importance through the past. ... Mr. Kulukundis has searched out his roots and has tied them to the present - this act alone is commendable in an age of 'kill me or kiss me, Johnny, but do it quick'." -- John Cassavetes "Good and original and solid, a marvelous piece of work for a young writer (or an old writer) to have done." -- Laura Z. Hobson