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On one of the last voyages of the ship from southern Africa to the island of St Helena, Napoleon's place of exile, 'Admiral' Antonis Markellos, a cement industrialist who went bankrupt in 2017, recounts the stories of people linked to the fortunes of his now shipwrecked company. Over the five days of the voyage he playfully matches many of his fellow passengers with figures from his past and tells lives with ironic endings, aiming to record the company's chronicle on the model of an ancient Chinese work in which self-contained small plots give a panorama of distilled wisdom. The rises and falls around a leading Greek industry echo the turmoil of the country's economy and politics over the last hundred years.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

376 pages in the original

Genres

Satire, Historical (assigned by AI)

Set in

South Africa, St. Helena, Greece, 20th century–2017

First published

2021 by Εστία

ISBN

9789600518269 (original)