Winner of the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger / Best Foreign Book Prize, 1988

“Margarita Karapanou leads us into the labyrinth where God lives. One must read her as one reads Rimbaud or Blake… Karapanou’s insistence on tearing off our everyday clothes and ridiculous masks makes her, indeed, a truly remarkable writer.”―Jerome Charyn, Le Monde

God was tired, after all; for the Earth was a wretched place. By way of showing his disappointment, He leans over Earth in disgust and vomits the new Messiah. After his fall, the Messiah, Manolis, lands on a Greek island, a symbolic miniature of society inhabited by an excessive number of artists. Walking the lines between satire and murder mystery, The Sleepwalker follows Manolis, a policeman, stumbling across the island, like a sleepwalker, unaware of his divine nature. Kind-hearted and polite, the New Messiah passes unnoticed only to gradually reveal his darker side; with every step he takes, more and more violent events suspiciously come to the surface…

Kastaniotis, 2005, 1997, (1^st Ed. 1985, Hermes), 247 pages