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In the eight years before the war, Markos goes from an unknown butcher to the man who reinvents Greek popular music and nightlife. His obsessive love for Zigoala, the woman he first married, now living with a boyhood friend who was also their best man, torments and inspires him, burning out and flaring up again. He is at odds with almost everything: the musical taste of the day, poverty, stale tradition, respectability, the police, his relatives, a faithless wife, the Metaxas regime. The higher he climbs, the worse the world around him becomes, as the war draws closer like a chorus that cannot be avoided.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

434 pages in the original

Genres

Historical, Love (assigned by AI)

Set in

Greece, 1932–1940

First published

2008 by Ελληνικά Γράμματα

Author's age

55 when first published

ISBN

9789601902852 (original)