Ο παλαιστής και ο δερβίσης

One scorching summer a young Athenian photographer, Mirela, is sent by a travel magazine to cover a village fair in Macedonia, and there she meets Cemal, a Turkish Greco-Roman wrestler who fights Greek and Balkan opponents at religious feasts. Their affair goes on through trip after trip between the two countries, but the attractive, uninhibited Cemal catches the eye of others too, and unexpected desires are stirred. Soon a whole circle of friends is caught up in a game of love: a journalist from northern Greece with eccentric ways, an author who longs to be a Sufi mystic, a scholar of the Ottoman past. The story runs from 2001 to 2008, in Athens, Thessaloniki, Serres, Xanthi, Edirne and Istanbul.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

317 pages in the original

Genres

Love (assigned by AI)

Set in

Greece, Türkiye, 2001–2008

First published

2010 by Πατάκης

Author's age

54 when first published

ISBN

9789601638034 (original)