Month: March 2025

Margarita Karapanou: Ο υπνοβάτης (The Sleepwalker)

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The latest addition to my website is Margarita Karapanou‘s Ο υπνοβάτης (The Sleepwalker). The novel starts with God clearly unhappy with his creation so he vomits on Maniolis to create a handsome God, since all they worshipped was beauty. We now move to a Greek island, clearly based on Hydra which is full of dissolute … Read more

Margarita Liberaki:Τα Ψάθινα Καπέλα (Three Summers)

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The latest addition to my website ‘s is Margarita LiberakiΤα Ψάθινα Καπέλα (Three Summers). Unlike most of the Greek novels I have read, this one does not get into 20th century Greek history and politics but is a primarily cheerful tale. It tells the tale of three sisters living with their divorced mother, aunt and … Read more