Θολός βυθός

Giannis Archontis, who has already travelled most of life's unavoidable roads, arrives alone one June afternoon at a deserted beach on the Aegean. He wants less a final reckoning than to recover what those years did to him: from 1949 to 1955 he lived in the state-run homes for children set up after the Civil War in Athens, Veria and Thessaloniki, named after saints and run to make children obedient. As a lit ship passes in the night, the child he was surfaces from memory to tell his whole story. Through one short summer night, the grown man and the boy who was torn from home speak in two strange, almost parallel monologues.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

282 pages in the original

Genres

Coming of age, Historical, Politics (assigned by AI)

Set in

Greece, 1949–1955

First published

2008 by Άγρα

ISBN

9789603257738 (original)