Myrisini Zorba talks about her life following the announcement of her impending end. Thus, the self-narration of the life of a woman born in a working-class neighborhood of Athens during the Civil War unfolds, who lived actively through the dictatorship and the Metapolitefsi in her teenage and young adult years.
The years of her maturity encompassed the era of Change and Modernization, and the transition into twilight occurred during the long period of crisis. This book can also be read as a self-portrait of a generation that lived in an age of collective expectations, which now seems very distant to us.
Alongside the narration of her life and the realization of her time-limited life, the author began to keep, with exceptional calmness and clarity, a diary of her end. Even as her strength waned, she persisted in recording her thoughts, dictating them to the tape recorder beside her, up until her final text, where she confronts nonexistence head-on.
If this particular life narrative, including the diary, has a rare peculiarity, it is that it starts from birth and extends to death. Anatomy and overall reflection on the circle of life.
