Fifteen years after its first edition, "Wise Child," the novel by Christos Homenidis that thrilled audiences and critics and became a reference point for the generation of the Post-Dictatorship, is being re-released by Patakis Publishers.

For the new edition, the text has been typeset from scratch. It also includes excerpts from the reviews, a preface by the author, a reproduction of the first handwritten page, while the cover features a work by Dimitris Papaiannou, a piece he created in 1990 while reading the manuscript of the novel.

"Today -fifteen years and seven books later- I am happy whenever I meet kids who talk to me about "Wise Child," as well as "scholars" who, while they had dismissed it in horror back then, now proudly admit that they miss it.

I am glad that it has been re-typeset and is being released in a flawless edition and I am anxious whether the text -of which I did not change a single comma- will prove to be resilient," writes among other things in his preface the author Christos Homenidis, concluding: "No matter how much water flows under the bridge, whatever I manage to write until I die, "Wise Child" will remain the ark of my childhood."