- The struggle of a child for education against all odds.
- The inexhaustible endurance and determination of the human soul.
- The importance of solidarity and humanity.
The night was thickening. The sound from the cypress trees had also diminished. The lamps of the sky lit up. Everything was milk... milk... a small treat... and sparks. The river murmured in its sleep, whispering quietly. That child did not sleep that night... the whole night. He wrote his most bitter, his greatest fairy tale... At dawn he set off. He was... comforted. He had managed all night to count the stars... To count them all... slowly... one by one... All... And he got them right.
“... Lountemis wrote as he breathed, he never stopped... Almost every one of his books is a testimony from his long odyssey in exile – inside and outside of Greece... Now the children, when they count the stars, will know that what they miss is in their library.” Stratis Tsirkas
“Menelaos Lountemis was one of the beautiful minds of the generation of Romios writers who encapsulated in their works the thirst and struggles of our people for freedom, democracy, and humanism...” Diddo Sotiropoulou
“[...] Lountemis provides the poignant life experience he has gained in a world beautiful yet difficult, the intoxication of life that is called passion: love, pain, freedom, success, destruction. [...] He lets his heart speak again for its passions, drawing from the independent reservoir of his childhood experience.” Dimitris Raftopoulos
“A symbolic figure of a fighter for life, against injustice, which he experienced in the harshest way and fought with a child's stubbornness till the end. His message ‘to fight for what your heart says’ and ‘not to give up’ is the most timely message in our days. A message for both adults (parents – teachers), but mainly for children. Who are called to rebuild their colorful world, from the ruins we leave them mainly due to our tolerance of the most corrupt system for many decades.” magazine Ek-Paidevo, issue 27, September-October 2012
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The barefoot boy had now reached the bridge where the road met the river and formed a cross. From here he would pass, to slip into the dark neighborhoods. From this old bridge whose foundations tremble from the rushing water. This river, from tomorrow, will enter his small life. Because, further down, it goes and waters the little poplars that surround the schoolyard. It flows and brings around the white building and wraps it like a water-blue swaddle. From here, its red roof can be seen clearly, the two columns that stand upright in front of its door, its wide windows. How beautiful it will be inside there from tomorrow... The children will be able to have a cap with an owl on their heads and speak like grown-ups. This school was exactly like his dream. Its walls were just as white and its windows shone just as brightly on the lonely nights. That’s how it looked from his grassy bed...
Who was this boy? Who else?
Krif.*
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- Author
- Menelaos Lountemis
- Publisher
- Patakis
- Type
- Classic Literature
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 576
- Release Date
- 12/2014
- Publication Date
- 2014
- Dimensions
- 14x21 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9789601660301
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