Next, I'll nominate The Daughter by Pavlos Matesis, from Greece, 221 pages. From
Goodreads (where it has a 4.23 rating):
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Rural Greece during German occupation and the civil war. Meskaris, a young mother whose husband is away fighting, takes as her lover a shy Italian soldier, so as to better feed and clothe her children. With victory, the villagers will exact a terrible revenge. This is the mother's story as told by her daughter, Rarau, along with her own life story.
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