Something Will Happen, You'll See / Christos Ikon, trans. by Karen Emmerich, 274 pp.

These short stories are very much products of their time, all set in a working class Greek port town in which most of the residents are unemployed, underemployed, or working but not being paid.  The characters are lightly sketched and the narratives contain only faint arcs of action or change; primarily these are mood pieces in which the sky is grey and no one is laughing.  Details of first-world people dealing with hunger (not the spiritual kind) are alarming and feel true in an unpleasant way.  These stories leave an impression, but I didn't quite like them; there was a sameness which is perhaps part of the message.  My favorite was Go out and Burn Them, in which a young man reads a bundle of his dead mother's old letters and remembers that poverty is not entirely new to his family and neighbors.