“No retelling of Kassandra and the Wolf can explain its charm, or its riddles. […] [It] is a short, muscular novel with an absolute sense of craft. […] The language throughout is merciless and crisp. [A] stunning achievement: a lovely, sinister book.”― Jerome Charyn, New York Times

Kassandra is a six-year-old girl sharing her dark journey to adulthood. At times a little girl falling victim of her butler’s appetites, at times a confused teenager or an adult patient in a mental institution, her life is but a vertigo, a metaphor for the darkest corners of a woman’s reality. So brutalized, Κassandra cannot express emotions: given a doll to love, she cuts off its legs and arms; given a kitten to tend, she beats it, drowns it, and then lovingly wraps it in a blanket. The novel disquiets, disturbs, but intrigues.

An unforgettable narrator, a perfect, brutal, guide to her world, where realism is poetically intertwined with that of enigmatic dreams, and nightmares.

Kastaniotis, 2018, 2006, 1997, (1^st Ed. 1977, Hermes), 192 pages