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Fragkias, Andreas: The Courtyard
Translated by Martin Mckinsey P.448, Andreas Franghias' novel The Courtyard gives us a picture of Athens not found in the guidebooks. Set in the ruins of post- World War II Greece, the story revolves around the inhabitants of a single courtyard in one of the city’s poorer neighborhoods. Officially, the civil war has been over for years, but its devastating effects continue...
19,35 €
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Raptopoulos, Vangelis: The cicadas
Life, suggests "The Cicadas", is a tough, nasty and indifferent as a B thriller. Vangelis Raptopoulos' characters, sketched with sure-handed empathy, and with a knife-edged ear for the hard humor of the street, throb with the fervid intensity of cicadas buzzing in the noonday heat. Nothing in their voice intimated how soon they will die.
7,74 €
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Sfakianakis, Aris: The emptiness beyond
Two friends trapped in adolescence. Their first encounter with Woman and the supernatural. Constant reassessment of values and a heroine from out of Lewis Carroll. Arrangements to meet at night at her parents' house. Reading Albert Camus and caviar-parties for four. The Dawn Spirits and the fugitive abbot. An apparition from Hell. The golden decade of the 1970s and the...
7,74 €
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Milionis, Hristoforos: Kalamas and Acheron
A cycle of stories, closely connected, which can be read as a novel, where the two rivers Acheron and Kalamas symbolically become the boundary between life and death.
7,74 €
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Panselinos Alexis: Betsy lost
What happens when three young lawyers set off at night into unknown parts of town in search of a stolen motorcycle? Alexis Panselinos tells us all this and more in a story which is sometimes surreal, always tender, subtle, sad and extremely funny.
6,45 €
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Nikolaïdis Aristote: Vanishing point
Aristotelis Nikolaidis, psychiatrist and profilic novelist and poet, relates how a certain individual slowly vanishes from view, a process that becomes strangely contagious.
14,20 €
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Papadaki, Alkyoni: The colour of the moon
Awarded first prize by the Greek Wtiters' Association "...-What colour is sadness? asked the star of the cherry tree as it left the frayed end of a cloud passing by in a hurry. Didn't you hear ? I asked you : what colour is sadness? -It's the colour the sea takes on at that very moment when the sun lean on its arms. It's a wild, dark-blue colour. -What colour are dreams?...
9,83 €
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Dimitriou, Sotiris: Woof, woof, dear Lord
We are sad creatures. I am a prostitute running to seed and my last asset is an idiot son.I am a street- sweeper collapsing under the weight of time and my own obesity. I am a foul-mouthed and repellent daughter desperately in need of a man. Sad creatures. Simple needs. Mr. Dimitriou conjures us into existence in the space of a few lines, and we live, poised between hope and...
6,45 €
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Plaskovitis Spyros: The facade lady of Corfu
In his brilliantly constructed novel, Spiros Plaskovitis counterpoints his enigmatic heroine-Anghelina Dassiou-against the touristic "Development" (or Destruction?) of most Greek islands today.Anghelina, although forced by circumstances to work as a sales-lady in a deluxe tourist Hotel, still personifies nostalgia for the traditional couler locale of Corfu-particularly the...
14,20 €
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Lymperaki Margarita: Three Summers
".... The hat summer we bought big straw hats. Maria's had cherries around the rim, Infanta's had forget-me-nots, and mine had poppies as as fire. When we lay in the hayfield wearing them, the sky, the wildflowers, and the three of us all melted into one..." "Three Summers" is the story of three sisters growing up in Greece: their first loves, lies, and secrets, their shared...
13,25 €
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Tsirkas, Stratis: Drifting cities
This trilogy, The Club, Ariagni, The Bat, is the saga of three cities-Jerusalem, Cairo and Alexandria-which are drifting towards chaos in a war-torn Middle East. At its centre is Manos: poet, lover of life, man of intellect and integrity, hero of the Greek war against the Italian invasion, now desrting the national army to join the leftists in the clandestine struggle...
29,44 €
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Fakinou, Eugenia: Astradeni
P.240, "Grandma Eleni says it’s my name, Astradeni, that’s to blame, because Astradeni means ' the one who binds the stars.' And who, other than a fairy creature, can bind the stars? I don’t tell anyone this, of course…" Symi, the small island near Rhodes, is where the eleven-year-old heroine of this novel grows up, until financial reasons oblige the family to move to...
11,72 €
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