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The Garden of the Runaways
A captivating literary excavation of a mythical world full of lost secrets, buried emotions and untold stories.
On a five-day school trip, a literature teacher, a maths teacher, a schoolgirl, a PE teacher and a tour guide explore ancient Pompeii. What will this lost world reveal to each of them? Katerina, Andreas, Nefeli, Sonia and Leonardo will be confronted with their deepest desires, their most secret wounds.
Fragments of buried stories will come to light, composing a fresco whose details are gradually revealed. Like the threads of a fairy tale that were suddenly severed on the day the volcano erupted. Today will be mirrored in yesterday, memory in truth.
A polyphonic novella set in the rift between the present and the past. In a place where people confess and objects speak out to recount the fall from another Garden of Eden: the Garden of the Fugitives.
- Pages: 112
- ISBN: 978-960-572-809-0
- Publication: 2026
- Date of publication: 24/02/2026
- Dimensions: 13.3 x 20.5 εκ.
- Categories: Literature, eBooks, Greek Literature
"Η νουβέλα της Έλενας Μαρούτσου, με τη μικρή της έκταση (μόλις 100 σελίδες) και την πυκνή, ευφάνταστη αφήγηση, είναι ένα γοητευτικό βιβλίο που ανοίγει παράθυρα όχι μόνο στις ζωές των ηρώων, αλλά και στο μακρινό ιστορικό παρελθόν. Αξίζει να διαβαστεί και σίγουρα θα αγαπηθεί."
– Μαρία Δριμή, FractalElena Maroutsou
Elena Maroutsou was born in Athens. She studied History at the University of Athens and completed postgraduate studies in Literature and Visual Arts in Reading, England. Her literary works include: Of Height and Depth (Alexandria 1998), The Betrayals of Names (Alexandria 2004), Between Train and Platform (Kastaniotis 2008, The Athens Prize for Literature 2009), The Meaning (Kedros 2010), The Vulgar Orchids (Kichli 2015), Two (Kichli 2018), Beast-Shaped (Polis 2022, Greek PEN’s list of the ten best books by women authors), The Atoning Miracle. A story in fifty-one suitcases (Kichli 2022, Klepsydra magazine Prose Award 2023), _The Domino. The Art of Chain Reactions (Kichli, 2024). The Garden of the Fugitives is her tenth book.
