Nominated for the public vote in the Skroutz Book Awards 2026.
“Bronze Thresholds” is a narrative balancing act, an annex, an unauthorized structure on the estate of the Homeric world. There, within its four walls, we watch a private screening of the Trojan War and Odysseus’s return, told differently. The kings are stripped of their heroic ideal; the enslaved men and women have voices and eyes, interpreting and reconstructing the world of power and divine descent.
The novel is the beginning of yet another myth beside the dominant one. It recounts what might have happened if a character invented by the author had infiltrated the Achaean camp and, through his growing influence, changed the course of the war and the journey home to Ithaca.
“Bronze Thresholds” speaks of cultures living side by side, of the gulf between outcasts and secular and divine authority, and of the relationship between enslaved person and master when its bonds begin to unravel. It is an imaginative tale of billowing sails and open horizons, of the healing presence of women in a world awash with blood and bronze. It is an indictment of the brutality of war, a reflection on the tragic forces that shape human fate, and at times a comic novel, since those in power, often left defenseless, invite parody and satire.
