American Fugue
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- Category: Literature
- Published on Thursday, 26 May 2016 14:40
At a crucial stage of his life, one Greek writer receives the invitation to participate in a literary program in America.
He decides to go to leave behind the ghosts that persecute him.
But in the new country he does not find peace.
The Fortress of Memory
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- Published on Friday, 13 May 2016 14:41
In the imaginary village of Paliokastro, the "memory citadel" of the book, the first novel of the trilogy of memory of Fakinos takes place. Paliokastro, symbol of the Hellenism that fight in defense of their independence and their cultural identity, is the last corner of the Greek land remained free after the Ottoman conquest.
The Last Black Cat
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- Published on Thursday, 24 March 2016 16:35
Sometimes to describe the mysteries of the human condition it needs a fairy tale rather than a philosophical text. Essentially, from Aesop to Phaedrus, until La Fontaine and Orwell's Animal Farm, the world of animals has always been an inexhaustible source of symbols and allegories useful for better understanding of the world and the relationships between human beings.
Additional to this great classics, there is now also The Last Black Cat of Trivizas Evghenios.
Seven lives and One Great Love: the Memoirs of a Cat
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- Published on Friday, 18 March 2016 16:37
If you are cat lovers, this book is made especially for you! In fact, a love story of big dimensions, pure and fearless that it make us understand the needs, the expectations and the prospects from who is not like us.
It was written by Lena Divani and translated in Spanish,Turkish,Italian,Romanian and Hebrew.
The Late Night News
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- Category: Literature
- Published on Wednesday, 09 March 2016 16:13
The first book about the cases of the Greek inspector Costas Haritos was published in 1995 in Greece and was translated into several languages. It got mainly positive critiques and was written by the famous Greek author Petros Markaris. The book is also called “Deadline in Athens”.
Homo Faber
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- Published on Friday, 29 January 2016 15:49
One of the probably most famous parts of the ancient greek culture is the amount of myths, it has given us. For nearly every situation, one can possibly experience, there is a greek myth describing it. The ancient Greece has built such a big world full of gods, heroes and tragedies, that they still find place in our modern literature. One of the best examples for this is the book “Homo Faber”.
You may ask yourselves now, what a book called “Homo Faber” written by a swiss author called Max Frisch, has to do with greek myths, greek literature, and therefore with greek culture? Well, you will see!
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