What is Athens after all? One of the twenty-five capitals of the United Europe or the capital of the Balkans? The city that repatriated the Olympic Games or the city of maniacal drivers, frappe and immigrants? Those who have read Peter Markaris' three novels know his love-hate relationship with Athens. In “Athens, Capital of the Balkans” he attempts to describe the various faces of a city that is both adorable and repulsive to its inhabitants, very human but also extremely inhuman. And because Athenians leave their city at every opportunity, one of the stories is set on an island, in summer, by the sea...

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