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Early in the twentieth century a mysterious sickness strikes a small town in the far south of the Peloponnese, and its people, as motley as a travelling circus, take to the road to escape it. Halfway between the believable and the dreamlike, the townsfolk of Alykes, a vast and freakish procession, look for a place they can call their own, while death travels with them and affairs, desires and quarrels flare up along the way. In an invented Greece where the telephone, the motor car and moving pictures are new wonders, the hero chooses the route of the exodus and is cleansed by it.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

384 pages in the original

Genres

Historical, Speculative (assigned by AI)

Set in

Greece, early 20th century

First published

2011 by Κέδρος

Author's age

52 when first published

ISBN

9789600442489 (original)