This novel touches the most hidden wound of modern Greek history, in order to reconstruct a modern love story from its rejected material. The author manages to masterfully marry personal and collective history, using the December '44 events and the civil conflict not as a background to the love story, but as its constituent material. The world he gradually builds is rooted in the primordial abandonment and ultimately in the fundamental conflicts of contemporary Greek history - wounds that Greek society has never been able to manage, leaving it floundering between paranoia and decay. [...] Raptopoulos does not dive directly into the civil war, but contemplates it through representations, photographs, literary texts, borrowings from other art forms, allowing the author to traverse the horror without his text being heavy, to touch upon serious and thorny issues such as that of neutrality (can one remain uninvolved in times of crisis and polarization?), without becoming didactic or providing answers.

The book is available at the Library; Call. No.: 889.334 Ραπ [in Greek].

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