Οι ρετσίνες του βασιλιά

One autumn afternoon an elderly man appears in the village. Some recognise him and say they saw him the winter before inspecting the works at the tower at the end of the long uphill road. The novel is like a coin: on one side a dishevelled old man who was once a king, on the other a pot-bellied farmer smiling with a wine glass in his hand. As the narrator flips it, letters and secrets reveal family stories and images of a bewildered country steeped in unemployment and new emigration. Over the year the novel lasts, a Shakespearean world of towers, kings, daughters, fools, power and betrayal lurks behind everyday life, as old Exarchos plays his last card.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

456 pages in the original

Genres

Family, Migration (assigned by AI)

Set in

Greece

First published

2019 by Πατάκης

Author's age

55 when first published

ISBN

9789601684635 (original)