Kyriakos Rousias went to America when he was fifteen. At forty-three, he lives in Gaithersburg and works in Frederick as a researcher at the National Institutes of Health. He doesn’t talk much about his family, he doesn’t talk much about the old days. In the summer of ’98, without warning, he returns to his village for the first time. And he runs into the other Kyriakos Rousias. He hears that voice that pierced the pomegranate and peeled the almond. He looks for a woman named Maro with a tear-shaped mole on the back of her calf. He wonders what a person’s gaze is like at the moment they make a fateful decision.

Won the Diavazo Novel Award for the year 2000

Kastaniotis, 2000, 384  p.