Akrivos’s new novel consists of a story about Greece before its very formation; it is also a chronicle of one of the most controversial heroes of 1821, Karaiskakis, an illegitimate child, who grows to become a thief, a brave fighter and an accused traitor…
As Plato writes the dialogues of Socrates, his great master, so does Agrafiotis, Karaiskakis’s young keeper write about the life, strategies and peculiarities of the great figure, that baffles historians till today.
It gives the tone of that time: a turbulent period of dispute between brothers, of conflicting faction groups in the mountains, and of a growing difficulty to understand one another. In this state of anarchy, Greece will enter the war of its emancipation, a “mission impossible” without its (anti)heroes…
“This historical novel is the portrayal of the innate difficulty Greeks have to reach an agreement,” Akrivos says.
Metaixmio, 2021, 256 p.
