A love born during the years of the Occupation reaches a peak of intensity....

Here is the portrait of an extraordinary - yet in many ways typical - English couple, as seen through the eyes of a fascinated, ouzo-guzzling Greek narrator reminiscing on a sundrenched beach....

Farewell Anatolia is a tale of paradise lost and of shattered innocence; a tragic fresco of the fall of Hellenism in Asia Minor; a stinging indictment of Great Power politics, oil-lust and corruption. Dido Sotiriou s novel - a perennial best seller in Greece since it first appeared in 1962 - tells the story of Manolis Axiotis , a poor but resourceful villager born near the ancient ruins of Ephesus. Axiotis is a fictional protagonist and eyewitness to an authentic nightmare: Greece s "Asia Minor Catastrophe", the death or expulsion of two million Greeks from Turkey by Kemal Attaturk s revolutionary forces in the late summer of 1922. Manolis Axiotis chronicle of personal fortitude, betrayed hope, and defeat resonates with the greater tragedy of two nations: Greece, vanquished and humiliated; Turkey, bloodily victorious. Two neighbours linked by bonds of culture and history yet diminished by mutual greed, cruelty and bloodshed....

A "brief encounter" on the Athenian Underground brings together two people, Koula and Dimitris, from entirely different backgrounds and ages....

That is Acheron? A river in the north-west of Greece, in Epirus, which, in ancient Greek mythology, was the boundary between life and death....

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Two friends trapped in adolescence....

The protagonist in each of these stories is a solitary individual, alienated from society, haunted Dy memurira, fascinated by the disgusting, obsessed with the relationship between love and death, and fetishistically attached to certain objects that bear the traces of traumatic experiences....

We are sad creatures....

Ο ήρωας του ομότιτλου διηγήματος -που έδωσε και τον τίτλο στη συλλογή- αποφασίζει να διορθώσει μια "ανορθογραφία" στην πινακίδα του δρόμου....

Τα γεγονότα που συνθέτουν την πρώτη χιλιετία της διαδρομής του Βουδισμού και η φιλοσοφία που παράλληλα αναπτύσσεται συγκροτούν ένα κείμενο που δεν απευθύνεται σε ορισμένο ούτε σε περιορισμένο κοινό....

"Το γάλα" είναι μια τραγική ιστορία τριών ηρώων, της Ρήνας (45 ετών) και των δύο γιων της, Αντώνη (25 ετών) και Λευτέρη (23 ετών)....

Ποιο ήταν το "Αηδόνι της Λέσβου"; Κανένας δε φανταζόταν ότι το μικρό κορίτσι που ξεκινούσε ορφανό από την Ερεσσό για να ζήσει κοντά στους θετούς γονείς της στη Μυτιλήνη έμελλε να γίνει η μεγαλύτερη ποιήτρια και μουσικός της αρχαιότητας....

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