The Problem with the Telephone, George Ioannou

A poignant passage from the short story, The School Teacher, by Thessaloniki's George Ioannou, translated by Nikos Stangos and David Plante, The London Magazine, April/May, 1983.

Another translation by Peter Mackridge and Jackie Willcox, from "The Teacher" (Yiogos Ioannou, Good Friday Vigil, Kedros Modern Greek Writers, Athens, 1995