Ο θάνατος του μισθοφόρου

Ilias is forty-five, dark, fit, a philology teacher at a secondary school and a bachelor by conviction who calls himself bisexual. At the gym he goes to on Kos he meets Yuri, a young soldier of Russian descent serving a seven-year term on the island, the epitome of manliness with a tattoo on his calf, who wakes his senses. The story follows Ilias from Kos to Kypseli in Athens, to Rethymno in Crete and back, moving between the reality he lives and a dreamlike, ghostly state he slips into after meeting the young man, as guilt and desire take hold of him.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

296 pages in the original

Genres

Love, Crime (assigned by AI)

Set in

Greece

First published

2016 by Το Ροδακιό

Author's age

56 when first published

ISBN

9789608372979 (original)