The Greek alphabet in an extraordinary adventure. Behind each letter, an encounter (brief, funny, fatal, unforgettable) between an insect performing its instinctive moves and a human fighting a destiny. To Bee or not to Bee? wonders in letter B the estranged daughter of an amateur beekeeper who wasn’t taken care of in his final brief disease. In letter M, a pupil of a Parisian high school, preoccupied with gender issues, loses her interest in myrmecology. What strange chemistry will bring together a composer of minimalist music and a member of the Hymenoptera in letter Y? Why don’t insects live in the sea? is a question a passer-by hears from a child in letter Theta (Θ), and upon losing not love but his lover, he’ll try to prove the assumption wrong. An entomological alphabet, inspired by the many faces of Europe, those enchanting and those disenchanting, and those that are both at once.

Athens Prize for Literature
Athens Academy Prize

PATAKIS, 2018, 416 p.