Φωτιές του Ιούδα, στάχτες του Οιδίποδα

In 2000 a young Greek-Jewish teacher takes up a post in a mountain village on Crete. Her arrival, and the Easter ritual of burning an effigy of Judas, open a way into the closed world of the island's highland communities and bring to light an old local belief that gives the betrayer of Christ the destiny of the Theban king. Crime and the law, love and ritual, killings and secrets, new ideas and ancient ones clash all around her as she tries to trace her own family's troubled past. Alongside her story, the tale of Judas-Oedipus, a legend about pure evil, travels its own dark road from antiquity to the present.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

270 pages in the original

Genres

Family (assigned by AI)

Set in

Greece, 2000

First published

2009 by Καστανιώτης

Author's age

62 when first published

ISBN

9789600349924 (original)