Greek Prose Literature

Four young women, unknown to each other, met. Only for a few moments!Something inexplicably familiar ripped through them, a subtle tremor as their eyes met, as if a gust of icy air had passed through them. An inexcusable sense of fleeting fear, a startle and an indefinable nostalgia enveloped them. ..

1816-1829. Patras, Tripolitsa, Nafplio, Messolonghi…After Angelis found himself imprisoned in Shaheen Agha's chicken coop, hatred welled up in his soul like a poisonous snake.During his explosive and at the same time seductive journey he gets into the employ of a tight-fisted and stingy shopkeeper, ..

Athens 1943. A Greek-American detective has been in Greece for a few years, hunted by his enemies.He makes a living from his profession, and as the war dashes his last hopes, someone entrusts him with the protection of an opera double bassist. Caught between dream and reality, he will meet creatures..

Penny (Penelope) Saray, a Greek-British woman of Smyrna origin, lives with her family in Athens. 2021, Almost a hundred years after the Smyrna Catastrophe, Penny makes her first trip to her ancestral Smyrna, a journey back to the birthplace of her grandmother, the Smyrian Penelope Saray. At 8Her da..

The Balkan Wars, the Great War, the Bulgarian occupation of Eastern Macedonia make up a tragic backdrop in which the uprooted family of the Thracian Antonis Karantreas struggles to survive. Antonis' hostage-taking and the exhausting work in the Bulgarian camps leave indelible scars on his body and s..

The tenants of two apartment buildings across the street on Independence Street, ordinary people in the time of quarantine, begin to observe their neighbours. With their greatness and their pettiness, their laughter and their crying, their truths and their fallacies: a retired general who doesn't ha..

In Crete, during the Occupation, Natalia Papaderou works in the office of the German General Broyer, who appreciates the fact that the girl speaks his language fluently and likes his country, without suspecting that both she and her fiancé Konstantinos are organized in the Resistance.At the same tim..

Games of fate. Unpredictable events.2010. The eruption of the Icelandic volcano brings together a man and a woman, Phoebus and Daphne.- What future can there be for the relationship between two people with different backgrounds;- How a butterfly, a Byzantinologist and a dead researcher are connected..

[. . .] The spies go deep into my neighbors' countries and when they come back they tell me they saw nothing. Poverty, he says, and misery. Misery and depression. An army in tatters. And the people leave for foreign lands to find better fortune. It's so tragic what I hear, I'm thinking of sending (s..

"Sometimes I too feel tired listening to the sound of my tears. Other times, I fear that our best years are already behind us. But there's nothing I can do. I am experiencing a total eclipse of the heart. A total eclipse of the heart".July 1983. A group of friends from Piraeus, friends from their ch..

The idea to write, in conversation with Manos Eleftheriou, the biographical (myth)His story came to us as good ideas come to us. Coincidentally, one August evening on our shared holiday, the 2010. We had already known him for a few years, having developed a friendly relationship. But we knew him wel..

Psyche - DEMOULIDOU CHRYSIDI - GOLD - The cellar of shame - - Decade of '60. In a small village in Messinia, three sisters, Dimitra, Anastasia and Myrto, grow up in the shadow of a boss father and a mother who has no say. Their only outings are every Sunday to church and to the village fair once a y..