1. What is the importance of the setting in The Refugee Summer? Why is a suburb of Athens used, and not Athens itself which could have brought about many more details of the political situation, etc.?
2. Discuss the role of the Rumanian Princess. Why is she important to the plot?
How does her appearance in the novel influence the characters?
3. How are Manolis Kondylis's diaries important to the anti-war theme of the novel?
4. Edith says that "Ignorance is only when you don't know something and somebody else finds out." Discuss this comment taking Nikolas's "ignorance" into consideration. Do you find her definition of "ignorance" to be true? If not, why does she say this to Nikolas?
5. We only find out the true identity of the narrator at.....
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