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In a black-and-white student short film, a man walking with his head bowed finds a dime, then the price of a call in America, runs into a phone booth, drops the coin and is about to dial when his face turns from joy to sadness; he hangs up and walks out. Why did he not call? From that question the author begins an investigation that often resembles a detective's, trying to find the cause of a great, still unhealed sorrow. He moves from today to 1968, from Athens to Washington and back, with real and fictional people intertwining. Between novel and autobiography, it circles a person who plays the main part yet keeps hiding.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

192 pages in the original

Genres

Autofiction (assigned by AI)

Set in

Greece, United States, 1968–present

First published

2022 by Ίκαρος

Author's age

69 when first published

ISBN

9789605724917 (original)