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The novel centres on the night Athens was set on fire, Sunday 12 February 2012. A former philology teacher and a former painter, now sharing a room in a 'hostel' in the run-down city centre, secretly go out to the demonstrations. They panic, get lost in their own city and are pushed into begging, without losing their own sense of things. Their paths cross with the anarchist son of one of them, the Golden Dawn supporter son of a third woman who looks after them, a young migrant and her child, a doctor, a social worker, the ghosts of a crumbling house and the new homeless, as the generation of the Polytechnic uprising faces today's revolts.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

336 pages in the original

Genres

Politics (assigned by AI)

Set in

Greece, 2012

First published

2015 by Καστανιώτης

Author's age

68 when first published

ISBN

9789600358827 (original)