- Greek State Literary Prize for the Novel 2004 · Shortlist
Αγιογραφία
Agiografia
“Hagiography” (title translated by AI)
Nikos Panayotopoulos (Νίκος Παναγιωτόπουλος, born 1963)
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An Arcadian village woman comes upon a little boy sleeping on a heap of bones that give off the scent of incense, and brings him home. He soon loses this second mother too, killed by her brutal husband, and to protect him the churchwarden raises him in his own house. While he grows up, one coincidence after another convinces the village that a saint lives among them, a belief that lasts until the summer of 1940.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 330 pages in the original
- Set in
- Greece, to 1940
- First published
- 2003 by Πόλις
- Author's age
- 40 when first published
- ISBN
9789604350193 (original)