Κοινότητα Αναγνωστών Βιβλίων - readers.gr

Giorgos Heimonas was born in Kavala in 1938 and died in Paris in 2000. He studied psychiatry at the University of Athens and the University of Paris, and he lived in both Athens and Paris; he has worked as a professor, physician, and author. His mysterious and moving narratives made him one of Greece's most renowned contemporary writers. To enter into a Heimonas text is not so much to read the written word as to experience it. His characters repeatedly suggest that the word of their experience flows through the body toward the lips but never reaches speech. Accordingly,...

Nitsa Gazeles is a young Athenian girl from a good family – a sensitive creature with all the ardour of youth, the curiosity of innocent girlhood and the joy of life. She wants to be able to go out on her own, to go wherever she likes, to go around with whoever she likes and to come home at whatever time she likes. Nitsa goes contrary to the society of her day and we know that society, even if it is defeated and altered by people demanding change, takes its revenge on them.

Had I a sixteen-year-old daughter I would contrive to have her read this book in secret. This achieved, I would be quite easy in my mind that there would be no fear of her ever going wrong. Gr. Xenopoulos