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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.
New edition of a pioneering comic book (1978) by Kyriakos Rokos about the junta of the colonels, an expression of irony and denunciation in a psychedelic composition.
The trace of loss, resilience, and of patience seals the poems of Marialena Spyropoulou. She captures the female experience with heartbreaking sincerity, and she transforms the “wants of the world” into poetic aliment, the flesh of the language.
“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.
The art book “Stefanos Rokos: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds’ No More Shall We Part, 14 paintings 17 years later” is available in a deluxe edition that includes, among others, photographs of the works, the lyrics of the songs, an introductory note by Nick Cave and an essay by Jim Sclavunos.
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.
Old objections to the weak character of liberal democracy are returning more harshly. The author regards suspiciously the easy disassembly of western democracies, but he stresses that alarms are necessary and believes that we do not have the right to close our eyes to the political failures and cultural challenges that surround us
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.
Seven women. Seven narratives. Seven life confessions. Their common axis is the passage from one homeland to another.
Why in our maps north is up and south is down? What was going on in other times? Who, when, how, and why did they impose the specific orientation of the maps?
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.
