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It is midday in the summer of 1956, in a Greece of gendarmes and enforced loyalty after the Civil War. Thomas, now a model civil servant, sees his settled life thrown into turmoil when someone from the past he has renounced appears and makes demands. With his marriage and his standing in the community at risk, what will he do? Around him lives a poor neighbourhood where every house hides its secrets behind closed doors and sagging shutters, while outside, a gang of wild children, tough yet tender, watch the grown-ups' dramas and dream of a vast, enchanted world beyond.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

205 pages in the original

Genres

Politics, Family (assigned by AI)

Set in

Greece, 1956

First published

2009 by Πόλις

ISBN

9789604352401 (original)