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…De Insectorum! is a booklet that was compiled almost spontaneously, without a second thought. Most of the stories were written in July 2017, during the author vacations on Astypalaia island. He’d write one (almost) every morning. The rest of the stories were written between Piraeus, Chania, Aegion and Thessaloniki (one of them was actually written on a train ride). What exactly is this book about? It’s a kind of an omnibus… metaphysical fascinating short stories featuring little insects in the lead role.

Children, parents, foxes, sparrows, lands, saints. Strange relations, death.

12 short stories fruits of a cherry tree that is blooming under water.

A small book that leaves the reader with lots of images and strange feelings.

5 Greek authors* write about Athens. Their approaches are very different and for this very interesting. French readers appreciated this book.

The greek rights were sold to Omega editions.  

*Assonitis, Chomenidis, Chryssopoulos, Dimitrakaki, Roussohadzakis

Autrement, France, 185 p.

A woman who works miracles. A salesgirl whose hormones go berserk. The external form of a man called Stefanos, shifts and changes continuously. A ghost returns. Charyvdis shuts herself up in her house forever, along with her no-name dog. A pair of twelve year old Siamese twins are separated. A man pounds his lover into smithereens as if he were dry herbs. A massacre at an American high school. In the midst of these tales, the author oversees the subjects of his experiments in the manner of a surgeon.  With invisible scalpels he conjoins and divides: carnivorous plants, dogs, cats, little ants, a swan, elephants, Beethoven in the sky and other sights, both familiar and eerie. And on occasion, he even enters himself into the shifting sands of the stories.