The novel focuses on the night that Athens was torched: Sunday 12 February 2012.Their sidelong glance penetrates – in its own special way – the invisible and symbolic aspect of the violent clashes. They panic, they get lost in their own city, they are forced to beg, but without ever losing their personal sense of things. When they return, they are closer to the unattainable Ithaca.
The anarchist son of one of the two women, the neo-Nazi son of a third one who looks after them, a young refugee and her child, a doctor and a social worker, the ghosts of a derelict Athenian home and, of course, the recently homeless – all cross paths in different ways with the two of them, either in an Athens which is being rent asunder, or a little later.
English translation available
In this anthropocentric political novel, the generation marked by the Polytechnic uprising against the dictatorship in 1974, now on its way out, initiates the difficult, necessary, and perhaps inevitable dialogue with today’s uprisings, with the huge upheaval that life has undergone in the past few years, with memory, and with the Ultimate Humiliation of the city.
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KASTANIOTIS EDITIONS, 2015, 336 P.
