Ο θάνατος ήρθε τελευταίος

The novel is set in the 1950s in a northern Greek province that feels both familiar and strange. Its heart is a crowded span of twelve years in which five siblings die, and just one young boy, born to one of them, survives. The story does not start at the beginning: it opens with three children whose game is cut short by a downpour, a deluge that keeps two mating dogs stuck together as a grotesque two-headed creature. From there the narrative winds like a river fed by countless tributaries, gathering a lightning-struck woodcarver, a jackdaw caught in a dead woman's hands and fire-walkers, as dying, desire and early youth take on ever-changing shapes.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

719 pages in the original

Genres

Family (assigned by AI)

Set in

Greece, 1950s

Series

Με το παράξενο όνομα Ραμάνθις Ερέβους, book 1

First published

2001 by Καστανιώτης

Author's age

50 when first published

ISBN

9789600331394 (original)