I shall sign as Loui

"In I Shall Sign as Loui, the renowned Greek writer Rhea Galanaki has given us a powerful, passionate story of the life of a historical figure told through fictional letters. Loui has grown up in western Greece and has been educated in Italy. He befriends Victor Hugo and Edgar Quinet, travels in the same circles as Karl Marx, and participates in the Italian underground and student uprisings in support of Garibaldi. Loui's letters to Louisa cover a life spent traveling across Europe, from Patras and the Ionian Islands to Italy and Paris, and his experiences in the revolutionary movements of mid-nineteenth-century Europe and America. With lyrical, haunting prose, Galanaki blends fiction and reality to tell a story as rich in emotion as it is in history."--Jacket.