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A man is seized from his afternoon drink at the Cafe Sport by two agents of the Regime-though what exactly he is suspected of we do not know, and neither, apparently, does he. What follows is a journey by car toward Special Branch Headquarters, and the interrogation that undoubtedly awaits him there. With their destination approaching, oppressed and oppressor come face to face with their deepest human feeling, locked in a game of psychological skill. As the plot slowly unravels, so, too, do its main players. Part thriller and part political satire, "The Flaw" is as po...

Hans Christian Andersen, deeply sorrowful by unexpected events in his life, in the autumn of 1865, decides to travel to Stockholm to meet his beloved friend, Fredrika Bremer. A sad event that occurred shortly after their reunion brought back memories and unforgettable moments he had experienced during his journey in Athens, Acropolis, Piraeus and Greek islands in 1841. The vividness of his inexhaustible imagination is engaged in narrating extraordinary stories of ninety-three other foreign travelers which took place there and he could write about but never did. The Ameri...

The "Murderess" has been regarded as Alexandros Papadiamandis’s finest work. Set on his native island of Skiathos it tells the story of Hadoula, a widow with grown-up children, who has convinced herself that it is better little girls should leave this life when young so that they and their parents should not suffer the trials that inevitably would be inflicted on them by an inequitable society. In the throes of this misguided compassion she first murders her own granddaughter and afterwards finds herself set on a course she is unable to stop despite the promptings of her co...

This book is about the story of a young American adventurer, the son of a billionaire. He arrives in a European country with a view to overthrowing the government and overtaking his father's business. This character is the "canvas" on which the author, John Bakalis, narrates a story of adventure, adversity and suspense. Acts of violence, terrorists, politics. Poetry. A great romance. Social conflicts. A story that could be utterly true. "The North of Greece" - newspaper

A story of the passion between a man of fifty "plus" and a girl of nineteen, a seemingly not unusual situation were it not for the fact that everything that takes place between the two "protagonists* is constantly and faithfully recorded by someone: the mature "grey" woman who is the man's past and who chronicles the lovers' passion with adoration and respect. The place is Salonica, the Old Curiosity Shop, Africa and the prevailing element is Passion, destructive, merciless, rapacious, without inhibitions and "objections" until the End. This End which is their life in a sta...

The novel encompasses the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th. Nikos, a young man, the son of a rich merchant who has eloped with the daughter of his business partner, leaves his Zagoria village in the Epirus region of north-west Greece in search of a better fate. His fascinating journey takes him first to Mytilene and then to Smyrna. In this cosmopolitan crossroads, a melting-pot of nationalities, cultures and beliefs, Nikos, who has now become Nikos - Efendi, makes a name for himself and becomes an influential member of society thanks to his wealth, acqu...

1339. A dark and difficult time. Romania is rent by disputes among warring royal houses striving for ascendancy. Knights errant, blood-thirsty nobles, scheming courtiers and mysterious travelers in the night play leading parts in a bloody game of supremacy. The monk Dimitris Spartino, one of the last survivors of the patrician Spartinos family, is forced to flee when a man of royal descent slays his brother and tries to murder him as well. As ha and his retinue are trying to make their ay to Constantinople, he encounters an enigmatic creature that is worshipped as a god, th...

Seeing the shine of her eyes, his mood changed. Suddenly, everything made sense, pain and sorrow were left to disperse in chaos, like the ashes of a fire that goes out in the blow of air. No one of the two wanted to talk, thus allowing love to fiercely overpower their bodies, which were creating between them a divine union, a musical sequence without even the smallest of discords. In an enchanting way, the two lovers were traveling in the intoxicating silence of the stars emanating from their hearts. Staying into each other's arms after the passion settled down, the soughs...

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.

Five men and one woman found asylum at the retirement home of Athens. They are known personalities and they talk about their lives. Markella, who is the main character of this book, played a major role in the protection of the European Community interests. She describes her struggle through the conspiracies and external agents of the International Capital. They tried to kill her on several occasions. All events unfold in Paris and Brussels. American agents that represent the Voracious cooperate with the underground, cause turmoil and homicides right in the center of Eur...

Artbazos, now satrap of Daskyleion, continues his narrative begun in "Artabazos the Persian". On the first line of Persia's defense against the Greek counterattack, he struggles to confront the Greeks as well as his personal foes in Persia. He fights against the most prominent Greeks, Pausanias, Kimon, Callias and the greatest of all, Themistocles, who arrives at the Persian court as an exile. Enmity is transformed into mutual respect and a deep friendship develops between the two men, united by their common quest and love for truth. A story full of confrontation, adventure...

[...]Three Summers is the story of three sisters growing up in Greece; their first loves, lies, and secrets; their shared childhood exrperiences and their gradual growing apart. Maria, is the oldest, is strong, sensual, keenly aware of society's expectations. Infanta is beautiful, fiercely proud, aloof. Katerina is spirited, indipendent, off in a dream world of her own. There is also the mysterious Polish grandmother, the wily Camptain Andreas, the self-involved Laoura Parigori... Katerina tells the story of these intertwined lives with imagination, humor, deep tenderness,...

Newlyweds arrive at an old hotel where they are to spend their honeymoon. But someone is conspiring against their life and their happiness. Death lies in wait at every turn. The hotel is occupied only by the newlyweds, the elderly owners and their strange son. Just how will this all end? Will the newlyweds escape the clutches of the crazed killer and fulfill the rosy expectations of their life? A man sentenced to life is released from prison and immediately hired as a servant by an extemely rich woman; he settles in her mansion but with misgivings. This enormous place is...

In this story Aristotelis Nikolaidis, psychiatrist and prolific novelist and poet, relates how a certain individual slowly vanishes from view, a process that becomes strangely contagius. Starting wtith the narrator, who has doubts about his own indetity and even the reality of his thoughts and memories, the contagion spreads to other characters and to the narrator itself. The hero's odyssey is a decent into hell in which reality becomes a snare trapping the wanderer in the state of absolute clandestinity; finally it reaches the very frontiers of paranoia to refect starkly a...

Here is the portrait of an extraordinary - yet in many ways typical - English couple, as seen through the eyes of a fascinated, ouzo-guzzling Greek narrator reminiscing on a sundrenched beach. Under his passionate, yet humorous, scrutiny, Mrs. Freeman and her husband come alive with great vividness, all the while retaining intact the mystery of their "otherness." The book is much more than the story of Mrs. Freeman's life and times; it also offers an ironical insight into the confrontation of two cultures, two different ways of looking at the world.

Υπήρξε μια περίοδος που τα τείχη που χώριζαν την Ανατολή από τη Δύση θρυμματίσθηκαν και κατέρρευσαν. Υπήρξε μια εποχή που οι ιαπωνικές εταιρείες μάζευαν τα αμερικανικά και τα ευρωπαϊκά τρόπαια το ένα μετά το άλλο. Και υπήρξε ένας καιρός που οι μούσες, οι εννιά αδελφές θεότητες, κατέβηκαν στη Γη για να στήσουν τον ερωτικό τους χορό, και τότε είναι που αρχίζει αυτή η ιστορία. Μια παρέκταση της σύγκρουσης ανάμεσα σε δύο υπερδυνάμεις στην εποχή της Ψυχρής Ειρήνης, το "When Greece turned into a little Japan" βάζει τον αναγνώστη επάνω σε ένα τεράστιο ορμητικό κύμα που ακολουθεί μ...