Like Stupid Birds recounts the adventures of Ana, the granddaughter of the beloved Loxandra, returning home after her long journey to Russia, recounted in Holidays in the Caucasus. Clearly autobiographical in inspiration, the novel takes us from interwar Constantinople, during the Allied occupation, to 1920s Alexandria—"a city divided in two: paradise and hell," in the author's words—and to 1930s and 1940s Athens, the scene of a traumatic German occupation. An author of extraordinary sensitivity, throughout these pages Iordanidu once again recreates with masterful vividness the adventures of her characters and of an entire generation during the turbulent era in which she herself lived.