A few words only
Our eyes have grown tired lately, our soul has knelt down.
Melancholy, haze, and alienation around us.
I was searching for another era for my next novel, an
era to whisper sweetly to my heart, despite the trials
of hard work and toil it might have carried on its back.
With open doors and open arms. With outstretched hands,
with smiling lips and tearful eyes. With faces that warmly and lovingly looked at other faces, not
expensive, cold screens. This bittersweet but human
era I sought to build on my pages word by word.
To feel its sufferings and joys, to live it again, like a
black-and-white Greek film you have seen a thousand times,
and yet, you would watch it a thousand times more.
In these days so far away yet so close, I wanted to lose myself.
With these lives so distant, yet so near, to dream.
This book you hold in your hands, dear readers,
is more a work of fiction than a historical representation.
Athens, 1966 The Heroes' Square, Ivis Street, Nymphs Street, places and streets like all the places and streets of Athens, small, insignificant, sad, tyrannical, yet infinitely tender. They have a lot of dust, much suffering, many women, many children, a lot of noise, and much silence.
In these streets, the desires and dreams of people are born and die, who come every evening with the sweet breeze and disappear every dawn with the sad siren of the factory.
The hopes of young Loukas, the nostalgia of the fallen "Count," the hopeless love of middle-aged Agisilaos, the kneeled life of worker Argyroula, the hard Vlasis and the deceived Frosso, the disappointment of Anna who begs for two tender words, the honorable Spyros and the charming Alekos who court her, but also the actress, the informer, the bully, the conmen, the whores, the sweaty men in machine shops and the women who curse each other on the staircases before embracing and kissing again, exchanging words of forgiveness and love.
Sweet lives and poisoned lives, dignified and petty, rough and tender. Some easy, some difficult, some steady and others stormy. Black-and-white lives, scratched, worn-out, but also unbearably nostalgic lives.
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- Author
- THodoris Papatheodorou
- Publisher
- PSychogios
- Publishers
- Psychogios
- Type
- Historical Novel
- Subtitle
- Novel
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 560
- Release Date
- 11/2014
- Publication Date
- 2014
- Dimensions
- 14x21 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9786180108569
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