Andi's War is the first part of a trilogy by Billi Rosen which begins with the young Andi's life in Greece, moves on to The Other Side of the Mountain when she and her father have fled to Sweden and settle there as refugees, only to end with A Swallow in Winter whereupon Andi finally returns to her village in Greece and has to deal with all the elements that had forced her to flee from her homeland in the first place. The trilogy follows the trials and tribulations of this young heroine faithfully and is a realistic window into all the elements that make up the Greek world, history, politics, immigration and emigration, religion, culture. It is a virtually untainted window into Greek reality, past and present, as well as into issues that may exist in other cultures and countries as well. It...