In English
Greek State Prize 2004 · Winner
Foreign Words
Οι ξένες λέξεις · Oi xenes lexeis
Vassilis Alexakis · 60 when first published
Novel · 214 pages · Autofiction
AI-generated summary:Still mourning his father, a man named Nikolaidis sets out to learn Sango, the language of the Central African Republic, on his own from a dictionary, and the study of its words becomes a way through his grief.