Something Will Happen, You’ll See is a heart-wrenching elegy on the impoverished working-class Greeks populating the neighborhoods around Piraeus, the large port southwest of Athens. Ikonomou’s luminous and poignant short stories center around laid-off steelworkers, warehousemen, families, pensioners, and young couples faced with sudden loss and turmoil.

Between docks, in tenement buildings, and on city streets Ikonomou’s men and women sustain their traumas on flickers of hope in the darkness and on their deep faith in humanity. An illuminating examination of the human condition, Ikonomou’s award-winning book has become the literary emblem of the Greek economic crisis; stories so real, humane, and haunting that they will stay with the reader long after the final page.

Inaugural recipient of the Chowdhury Prize in Literature 2022 in the US!

Winner of the 2022 O. Henry Prize for Short Fiction, the oldest major prize for short fiction in the US!

Winner of the Best Short Story Collection State Award in Greece!