Alex Scattered on the desk are various camera accessories. Hands move back and forth, choosing, discarding, unscrewing, replacing, screwing again, cleaning with a soft cloth soaked in a special liquid, sometimes rubbing a part on a plain white T-shirt. Different lenses reflect the light from the beautiful lamp with the honey-colored blown glass, sometimes directing it into his eyes, causing temporary blindness, and other times onto the ceiling, beautifying it with strange flashes and shapes. Other lenses, magnifying ones, enlarge whatever is beneath them. A few dust particles lazily resting on the dark surface of the desk, a slight scratch on the furniture, the edge of a silver-embossed card trying to spell out a name, as underneath the lens, a letterhead with the hotel’s logo is hidden. This way, you can see the first word "CAVE" in large letters, while the rest—a final sigma completing the word "caves" and a detached "Hotel"—outside the lens, continue on the paper at normal size. Even he doesn't quite know what he's doing.
Caesarea, Sinasos, Smyrna, and Pontus, in the stone years of the Greco-Turkish War and the population exchange: the canvas on which the story of the love between Sevasti Hadjiavramoglou and Elmer Alexander Carter is embroidered.
By Sevasti's side are her mother and sister, the fragile Makrina and the fate-marked Elisso, who will pay a heavy blood tax and will be called upon to overcome tragic dead ends by making life-and-death decisions.
However, the transcendent love dominates, opening doors in the stone-built courtyards of Anatolia, on the wild shores of the Atlantic, and in the calm waters of the Aegean, which will nullify distances and leave its indelible marks on time.
Eighty years later, it draws Elsa, who takes a journey to her ancestral lands carrying with her the diary of grandmother Sevasti, and Alex, who searches for the traces of Professor Elmer Alexander Carter. Two people from such different worlds that one would say they couldn't even cast a common glance at the carved rock monastery of Panagia that smiles, in the otherworldly Monastery of the Old Silver...
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Alex Scattered on the desk are various camera accessories. Hands move back and forth, choosing, discarding, unscrewing, replacing, screwing again, cleaning with a soft cloth soaked in a special liquid, sometimes rubbing a part on a plain white T-shirt. Different lenses reflect the light from the beautiful lamp with the honey-colored blown glass, sometimes directing it into his eyes, causing temporary blindness, and other times onto the ceiling, beautifying it with strange flashes and shapes. Other lenses, magnifying ones, enlarge whatever is beneath them. A few dust particles lazily resting on the dark surface of the desk, a slight scratch on the furniture, the edge of a silver-embossed card trying to spell out a name, as underneath the lens, a letterhead with the hotel’s logo is hidden. This way, you can see the first word "CAVE" in large letters, while the rest—a final sigma completing the word "caves" and a detached "Hotel"—outside the lens, continue on the paper at normal size. Even he doesn't quite know what he's doing.
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- Author
- Mairi Kontzoglou
- Publisher
- Metaichmio
- Type
- Historical Novel
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 656
- Release Date
- 5/2015
- Publication Date
- 2015
- Dimensions
- 21x14 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9786180300697
Additional Specifications
- Series
- Ta Palia Asimia
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