This book talks about modern Greece. With real characters, like those in the title. From Christodoulos, the Albanians, and Noti Sfakianaki to local rappers and Koemtzis. And from "November 17," the photo models, and Georgeoglou to my family and friends.

A journalistic yet very personal journey through the sometimes miserable and sometimes magical neo-Hellenic scene, in the days of globalization and the Internet. At its core, the theme of "Does Simitis listen to Mitropanos?" is not only the divorce of modernizers from the popular side represented by Mitropanos. Nor is it the eternal and almost metaphysical division between East and West. But rather our obsession with politics. Or at least, mine.

[Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition]