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Sky of lead
Mr. Giorgos writes... diaries, letters, poems, and an endless novel. He chases ghosts and measures himself against History. He hopes, he longs, he faces disillusionment. Casting a heavy shadow across his pages is his brother Leonidas, a hunted and exiled partisan.
When Mr. Giorgos meets Zoe in the enclosed paradise she has created for her precious only son, Dino, everything changes. The vortex of their unbreakable bond—where every third person seems superfluous—swallows him without a fight. Mr. Giorgos becomes "theirs." As for Dino, who tries to escape that suffocating maternal embrace, his own universe collapses when he discovers a hidden family truth.
A palimpsest of minor and major stories set against the backdrop of Thessaloniki, evoking images, scents, and sounds of lost summers while sketching the political developments of an entire era. A novel that dissects the personal relationships and choices of its characters beneath the leaden sky of History. Ultimately, is it she or the author who writes the epilogue?
Author:
Iphigenia Theodorou
Edited by:
Barbara Karzi
Pages:
256
Dimensions:
13.3 Χ 20.5 εκ.
ISBN:
978-960-572-877-9
Publication:
2026
Categories:
Literature, Books, Greek Literature
Iphigenia Theodorou
Ifigenia Theodorou was born in Thessaloniki and is a graduate of the School of Philosophy at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She studied fine binding at the La Cambre School of Visual Arts in Brussels and paper conservation seminars at the School of Conservation and Bookbinding in Ascona, Switzerland. She has participated in group exhibitions of fine bookbinding. She taught Greek as a volunteer at the National School of Vienna and at the Berlitz International School in Bonn and Cologne. As the partner and companion of a Greek diplomat, she has lived in various European and Asian countries, carrying those experiences into her books. In 1997, her short story collection Gold, Frankincense, and Myrrh was published by Ikaros Publishing. This was followed by Melek Means Angel (Ellinika Grammata, 2001; Patakis Publishers, 2015), which was nominated for the Diavazo magazine novel award; Language of Marble (Ellinika Grammata, 2005; Diaplasi, 2018); The Taste of the Desert (Patakis Publishers, 2012), which was translated into Arabic and published by Sefsafa in Cairo; The Little That Ends (Patakis Publishers, 2021); and It’s a Sea (Ikaros Publishing, 2024), which was honored with the 2025 Nikos Themellis Award by O Anagnostis e-magazine.
