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Athens, September 2013: fifteen-year-old Nasos, the most charismatic pupil at his secondary school, does not appear on the first day of upper school. The only one who refuses to accept the boy's disappearance is his philology teacher Argyris Stavrinos, bound to him by far more than their shared passion for the Iliad. While the victims of a relentless social war pile up in the city, Argyris finds himself facing a tangle of threads that lead him to night wanderings in the streets of Kolonos and to the ghosts of a painful personal defeat, asking where individual trauma ends and the collective begins.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

272 pages in the original

Genres

Coming of age (assigned by AI)

Set in

Greece, 2013

First published

2018 by Μεταίχμιο

Author's age

50 when first published

ISBN

9786180316315 (original)