- Greek State Literary Prize for the Novel 2011 · Shortlist
Ποιος θυμάται τον Αλφόνς
Poios thymatai ton Alfons
“Who Remembers Alfons” (title translated by AI)
Kostas Akrivos (Κώστας Ακρίβος, born 1958)
English editions
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Alfons Hochhauser is driven by a fierce, almost demonic restlessness. At sixteen he leaves home high in the Alps, roams the southern countries and in 1926 reaches Pelion, determined to stay for good. Taking any work going, he soon becomes a European legend, his story touching Greta Garbo, the Poseidon of Artemision and the Nazis. Thirty years after he died in extraordinary circumstances, a writer starts asking questions: could Alfons have been his father?
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 309 pages in the original
- Genres
- Family, Historical (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Greece, from 1926
- First published
- 2010 by Μεταίχμιο
- Author's age
- 52 when first published