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ALICE KAPLAN
LOOKING FOR THE STRANGER. Albert Camus and the Life of a Literary Classic
23,85€21,47€QUICK VIEWSince its publication in occupied France in 1942, Camus’s novel The Stranger has been translated into sixty languages and sold more than six million copies. How did a young man, with little experience as an author, turn out a masterpiece? Alice Kaplan re-creates Camus’s lonely struggle with the novel that would place him among the major figures of modern literature.
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RAPHAEL MOISSIS
TRUE AND ANECDOTAL. Stories with 55 persons
18,00€16,20€QUICK VIEWFor nearly half a century, Raphael Moissis, was at the helm of major private corporations and public organizations. In this book he is offering us a bold, realistic as well as humorous description of the political and business elaborations, strategic plans and tactics that unfolded behind closed doors, of the plans that were implemented during the 70’s and 80’s, and those that were not realized.
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Yiannis H. Papaioannou
Uncharted Area
10,00€9,00€QUICK VIEWUncharted area is the fourth poetic collection by Yiannis H. Papaioannou, with 72 poems in seven thematic sections: Nothing stays forever, Under the jurisdiction of words, The enigma of pictures, For Time, Fly and fall, Transcription, The psychotropic sorrow, I would not have you to be ignorant.
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KOSTAS M. STAMATOPOULOS
My Asia-Minor side
15,00€13,50€QUICK VIEWIn listening to the conversations of ‘grown-ups’ about the world which they had known and had recently been swept away, a feeling was born in a five-year-old boy, half of curiosity and half of nostalgia, for the Asia Minor of his own family on his mother’s side. Through listening and reading and through the family papers, his knowledge for his Asia Minor roots strengthened and went deeper as the years passed, so that at the age of 19 he determined to make his first visit to the other side of the Aegean.
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EVA NIKOLAIDOU
WOMEN TALK. Four great poets through the eyes of the women that lived by their sides. ELYTIS, RITSOS, SEFERIS, VARNALIS
14,00€12,60€QUICK VIEWPoets are presented, not through their intellectual achievements, but through the eyes of the women, partners and daughters, that lived by their sides. Unknown aspects of the poets’ daily life are revealed in the pages of this book, accompanied by many unpublished photos.
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MELETIS MELETOPOULOS
The lord of many faces a greek saga
24,50€18,38€QUICK VIEWAn historical novel based on real events and full of twists and turns, unfolding over three centuries from 1685 to 1920. It is the saga of a family of warriors, who came from Epirus along with the Venetian army in Southern Greece in 1685. When the family became embroiled in the murder of legendary Bouboulina and the vendetta that followed, their descendants fled to Mystras where they became powerful landowners with lives fraught with risk and adventure.
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MAGGIE KRITHARELLI
The Bio-graphy
of the Ancestral Home12,90€10,97€QUICK VIEWThe chronicle of a centuries-old, middle-class house in Kavala, as it unfolds in memories, family and public archives, and is depicted in photographs.
Walls, furniture and appliances testify to its evolution, as it assimilated the aspects of modernity of each decade, and the successive Lives under its roof lead us through the avenues of its history and prehistory, from the fall of Souli to the present day. -
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EVANGELIA HADJITRYFONOS
Palmetta Armellino
Sailing to the Levant 1912-191812,00€10,20€QUICK VIEWThe diary of Palmetta Armellino was found hidden in an old chest. It gives the image of a rather different Mediterranean world at the start of the 20th century, the image of a life both parallel to but also intertwined with sensational events that overturned the course of world history. The book presents the diary and its historical context.
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GIORGOS DOUATZIS
Rafts
12,72€6,36€QUICK VIEWPoems self-deceptions, the weak, the loneliness of the poet and the salvation of words…
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CHRONIS KARACHALIOS
Constructive embarrassment
11,60€5,80€QUICK VIEWA collection of poems in which Chronis V. Karachalios sketches a picture of the ego that is mirrored in fear and love. He draws an image of detection and atonement of the past now that collectivity becomes an imperative need.