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Two men cornered on the edge of a homeland. And among them is the age-old question of generation and ancestry. Petros and Rigas. Are they siblings? Was it once, and now is it no more? They’ve never been, and now it’s time for them to be? Are there any answers, or are they all figments of an alcoholic mind?
The 1941 Drama uprising brings harsh reprisals from the Bulgarian occupation forces, which reach as far as a small village on the plain of Serres—eight connected stories in an unenlightened period. The keen eye of the ordinary villager crossed with the Pangaion area’s myth.
Anton’s women a mosaic first-person account of the great and resounding end of love. Short stories that give voice to Anton Chekhov’s heroines.
A contemplative adventure is broken into standalone observations on the influence of the dominant social medium of our daily lives. Regularly the reader rests over (invented) tombs of people who have passed on and been snatched by the digital graveyard. Twelve plus one epigraphs intersperse the narrative and introduce the reader to the respective fictional personalities who, though deceased, continue to live.
A literary herbarium of the end. A fun-filled, question-filled catalog of death. A linguistic exhibit, full of different portraits of the same person.
“Frog’s Strech” records the unexpected but utterly possible meeting of two seas, the Arctic Ocean with the waters of the Mediterranean and their people. The author’s reading freedom leverages free association, and humor bores into the work that, above all, is a festival of language.
A story about how our body’s life can determine our choices, creativity, and eroticism; is about the spirit’s weakness in the face of the human form’s beauty. A story about the wound of unrequited love and the gap that the love earthquake opens. But it also is a novella for the sublimation of agony in the flowers that will fill it.
How far away can someone go from home? And there where he will be found, with his only luggage, an escape impulse, what will await him? A place of liberation? An environment that excites his desires? A milieu that tames his passions? A space symbol of its inner isolation? An unbecoming non-place that that tests its endurance?
Eugenia, which was extirpated as a child from her beloved home in Istanbul, strives to reconstitute in Thessaloniki the serene and beautiful atmosphere of her father’s house, despite poverty, loneliness, and consecutive impasses. She does not always succeed. But her ability to extend one hand to the Other, opening her home and her heart, helps her find the way to connect with the new city and its people, making it her own.
Human forms are falling asleep between dream and fantasy. Landscapes of desolate, sterile, suffocating, sucking every ounce and crushing hope. Asymptotic lives, relationships canceled, individuals doomed to loneliness, in constant struggle with existential despair. And yet, in the chains of decadence, love can still flourish.
The Battalions of Mountain Transport were an isolated world, stifling, but deeply optimistic thanks to the momentum and vitality of youth.
Written in 1978, when the “kamakia” (“harpoons”) phenomenon, young men who spent their summers offering erotic services to foreign tourists, was at its peak, the book captures these times with joyous humor and playful melancholy.
In the suffocating atmosphere of this idiosyncratic matriarchy, Agis tries, with the means at his disposal, his intelligence, his penetrating eye, his humor, to solve the ties in which his family has imprisoned him. But the “knot” that chokes him tightens unbearably, depriving him of his autonomy, making him incapable of love, unable, ultimately, to live.
Alexander Issaris began in April 1981 to record the events of every day and every night in a 100-page booklet. When a few months ago he decided to publish a book about his dreams, he found that eighty-five dreams were recorded, which became forty-seven after a very tough selection. This was called the Book of Dreams to reminiscence Andrei Tarkovsky’s Martyrolog.
Evangelos Zachos Papazachariou’s book “At Exarcheia in the 80s” is the chronicle of a borderline era. In the historical neighborhood of Athens, in the early 1980s, students, intellectuals, artists, neo-rebetes, unemployed and deadbeats meet, fall in love, create collectively, but most of all discuss, discuss incessantly about all issues: politics, gender, folk culture, relationship between Hellenism and the West, religion, epistemology, criticism.
33 pictures from a familiar route in Kefalonia. The road with the palm trees, the central square, the Cobbled Street and the square of the Bell. One to go – one to come back. Two women -mother and daughter- leave no trace in their passage. Only the sound from their heels on the tiles. And this route will change their lives forever.
