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Arta, 1854. The Turkish occupation. Two boys are born on the same night, one a Greek, the other a Turk, and fate makes them milk-siblings. The novel follows their life drawn on the canvas of the region’s unknown history. An entire era is brought to life in a unique way portraying prejudice alongside adventure, action, love, comical and tragic situations. In the shadow of the clock which strikes the Ottoman hours, Greeks, Turks and Jews live side by side. The shadow falls upon two friends, Liondos and Necip, a mysterious murder, grandpa Ismail, the small nation of Gree...

Stefan Dobrin was trained the hard way in absolute secrecy in order to turn into the perfect lethal machine. He never succumbed to his trainers’ illicit causes, that’s why he and his brother were neutralised. Today, Stefan, merciless and relentless, emerges from his ashes, and comes back to get his own back. He unexpectedly crosses paths with Zana, a woman with a shady past who, in her attempt to keep to the straight and narrow, finds herself in the middle of a fierce battle. They are both forced to blaze a gory trail to the end of the circle, teetering on an invisible...

[...] And I am still searching, when the wild geese fly by, to distinguish whether or not their flock is still lead by the same leader, Akka from Kebnekaise... Then I hurrently seek to make out Iksi and Kaksi, Kolme and Neljia, Niisi and Kuusi and Morten the White male tame Goose... [...] [...] And ''that thing'' was no other than the cute mini skirt by Mary Quant, the British fashion designer. Joan bought it on her last return from New York when she stopped for a couple of days in London, as she tended to say, even if she stayed there for a week. She had kept it in her...

"Loxandra" is the story of a Greek family living in Constantinople (Istanbul) from the mid-18th century up to the beginning of the First World War. It is not biographical as such, and many of the characters are fictional. Others, including the main character of Loxandra, are real. Constantinople was the author's home during the first years of her life and in her book she conveys the historical events, the customs, the spirit of those times when life for the Greeks of Constantinople was relatively untroubled. The real Loxandra was brought up in the Anatolian tradition of lov...

Beginning with the liberation of Mauthausen concentration camp by the Americans and continuing through the months that followed before the prisoners were repatriated, lakovos Kambanellis' Mauthausen tells the story of a remarkable love affair between two former prisoners. The events of the story are all true, but they read like a strange fairy-tale. The euphoria of the first days of the Liberation, the slow awakening of the inmates to the possibilities of love and normalcy, the beauty of the spring landscape in which the lovers walk hand-in-hand make the atrocities that pre...

This work was inspired by a dream the writer he had while sleeping one night. It was such an intense and unusual dream that it put gave the writer many thoughts. The same dream was repeated and, in the end, it became a vision. This dreamy vision led him to a daily recording of these events. His communication every night with people and other personalities who have left Earth long ago approach the area of the supernatural. Also, dialogues and events come to surface, the ones which prevailed in life in the past to prove to us, in their own way, that in the end, nothing is eve...

A tour de force that invites you to touch Panacea... Who is the young Greek boy that reaches Malta in the 16th century, hidden in a barrel of sardines? Who is the Knight that searches in every nook and cranny for Panacea, the mythical herb that cures every disease? Who is the old man that, along with a skull, narrates his life, cooped up in Parisian catacombs? A story of love, hatred, and mystery in Malta of the Knights, Spain of Cervantes, and Italy of Caravaggio. A riveting search for the herb of Renaissance, the meaning of life and death, in the shadow of a brother...

Manhattan, New York. That’s where Melania Hart has lived for the past ten years, haunted by a secret overshadowing her existence. If her secret is discovered, she will be ruined. She has written a staggering novel, and desperately wants to get it published with Damian Red’s publishing house. The mysterious tycoon is the absolute male—breathtakingly handsome, masculine, and sexy, New York’s most popular bachelor. When Melania comes under attack inside Saks Department Store on Fifth Avenue on New Year’s Eve, she can’t imagine that this is the beginning of a chain of events th...

Rosanna and Voula were living peacefully at Cesme as best friends, when, the political unrest that took place in Istanbul in 1955, separated them. Fate brings them together in Greece after many years and lots of adventures, including family secrets and murders. Read the story of the two girls and follow them along the path each took, through three different places, till they were reunited under unexpected conditions. The revelation of well-hidden secrets is hard to bear for Rosanna. Nothing, though, can stay secret for ever...

Little Marcos returns to the 20th century Santorini, many years after his last visit. He is now a teenager who will come face to face with the story of Life itself; a story which flows ceaselessly forming circles... He will learn that love and friendship are two interwoven knots. In those magical places - a precious gift to the unique island of Santorini by Nature’s own mania Marcos will learn how much Love’s waiting hurts; he will love the blindness of Hope, he will feel the flow of Time stretching like a string right through his very heart, carrying him into another time…...

The Naples Mafia, cocaine trafficking, crime, blackmail, threats, dirty money, rapes, children deprived of their childhood, hidden family secrets, corrupt cops, but also police officers committed to duty, Colombian drug dealers, Brazilian forgers, strained relationships, strong friendships and, of course, Love.The sea is always in the background, first with the crossing of the Atlantic Ocean by sail and then within the waters of the Aegean Sea, sometimes calm and sometimes rough... In the epicenter is the Greek island of Hydra, with its traditions, its people and their drea...

They're the gang that can't shoot straight: tough-guy wannabes straight out of a Greek-subtitled version of Thieves Like Us, downmarket motorcycle punks (no Hell's angels these), dead-end kids from the urban depths with foulmouthed girlfriends and parents as remote as prosperity. Innocents with attitude. Stamati, the bumbling ringleader, his faithful side-kick Takouli, and Foti, a self-styled strong, silent type who falls for a horny journalist, form a threesome with no past, no future, and a present as insouciant and short-lived as a cicada. Armed with little more than...

Andreas Franghias' novel "The Courtyard" gives us a picture of Athens not found in the guidebooks. Set in the ruins of post-World War II Greece, the story revolves around the inhabitants of a single courtyard in one of the city's poorer neighborhoods. Officially, the civil war has been over for years, but its devastating effects continue to haunt the survivors as, driven by fear, hunger and greed, they try to wrangle a way out of their poverty and pent-up lives. We follow them as they scheme and pursue their dreams through the backstreets of Monastiraki and the coffeehou...

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

Two friends trapped in adolescence. Their first encounter with Woman and the supernatural. Constant reassessment of values and a heroine out of Lewis Carroll. Arrangements to meet at night at her parents' house. Reading Albert Camus and caviar-parties for four. The Dawn Spirits and the fugitive abbot. An apparition from Hell. The golden decade of the 1970s and the nymphomaniac chimera. Long live virgins! In order words, a very tender love story. Or, The Emptiness Beyond

In his brilliantly constructed novel, Spiros Plaskovitis counterpoints his enigmatic heroine -Anghelina Dassiou- agianst the touristic "development" (or destruction?) of most Greek islands today. Anghelina, although forced by circumstances to work as a sales-lady in the deluxe tourist hotel, still personifies nostalgia for the traditional couleur locale of Corfu -particularly the old Venetian town. The big buisness explotation of the island is represended by Nikias Zavolis, the odious manager of the hotel, where the hero -Dimos Hairetis- is spending his holiday with his...