The Most Hidden Wound

A modern love story, set against the backdrop of the December 1944 riots. A lifelong love in an age of fleeting romances and the nightmare of civil war during the years of crisis.

This book is something of a cross between a diary and a documentary, an autobiography and a chronicle, a confessional essay and a travelogue set in the 2000s. It speaks of the author’s family, friends and reading. It covers his encounters with colleagues such as Tachtsis, Samarakis, Koumantareas and Nikos Nikolaidis. But it also addresses his successes and failures, given that for over thirty years his books have divided even his most devoted readers. At the same time, he talks about Bournazi, the Metro, the Mall, the OAKA, Big Brother and the smoking ban. About the rise of women and the fall of men, the Internet, ecology, globalisation and patriotism. About the December 2008 riots, terrorism, the unrest in Keratea, Lazopoulos’s party and the Indignant Movement in Syntagma. In other words, this book speaks of a decade that began as the very definition of success: with the unshakeable conviction that we had become part of Europe, through Greece’s entry into the euro and the 2004 Olympic Games. Only to end, before 2010 had even drawn to a close, with the collapse of that nouveau riche façade and self-delusion, and our plunge into an economic crisis so deep that we are now called upon to learn the fine art of failure.