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Γη του Αγριου Καιρου

Author: THodoris Papatheodorou

On Saturday night, I creep terrifyingly through the school basement. Around me, exhausted mothers and trembling children. The nighttime silence is broken only by the explosions from the Turkish...

On Saturday night, I creep terrifyingly through the school basement. Around me, exhausted mothers and trembling children. The nighttime silence is broken only by the explosions from the Turkish cannons booming on the shores of Kyrenia. With the first light, I get up, climb the old stairs, and step out into the courtyard to gaze towards the sea. Wide eyes...

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  • Release 07/11/2024
  • Pages Pages 560
  • Cover Cover Soft
  • Publisher Publisher PSychogios
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On Saturday night, I creep terrifyingly through the school basement. Around me, exhausted mothers and trembling children. The nighttime silence is broken only by the explosions from the Turkish cannons booming on the shores of Kyrenia. With the first light, I get up, climb the old stairs, and step out into the courtyard to gaze towards the sea. Wide eyes filled with fear look at me as I return.

“They are everywhere… The Turks are everywhere…” I whisper, holding my little Filitsa tightly. “They have filled the entire shore…”

SUMMER OF ’74. The summer of the dead, of thousands of missing persons. When the Turkish invader stepped on Cyprus and drowned it in blood. From the martyred Kyrenia to Famagusta and from the bombed Nicosia to Morphou. It is the summer of Evgenia, who was tortured and martyred like thousands of Cypriot women. Of Maritsa, who was left with an empty, orphaned embrace. Of Vagoris and Filitsa, who melt away waiting day and night for their father. Of Nikos, Andreas, and Markos, who fought alone, abandoned, betrayed, men who became faded images in front of black-clad bodies.

THE SECOND AND FINAL PART OF THE CYPRIOT DILOGY

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In Famagusta, at the hospital. I live. I breathe. With unbearable pain in my leg, but I breathe. That is what matters. My entire thigh was shattered, the doctors struggled for hours to fix it, and still they were not sure. I had lost a lot of blood, but fortunately the femoral artery was not damaged, so they told me, otherwise I wouldn’t have made it even to the hospital door that terrible night. Yes. I live. I breathe. And that alone matters. For three days and nights I was delirious. For three days and nights I lived the same nightmare again and again. Every time I closed my eyes, maybe even when they were open, I was always there, in the apartment block neighborhood, at the place of tragedy and sorrow. In front of me I saw them. The men with masks and weapons. My father, Konstantis. My brother, Giannis. Standing. And then collapsed. Every time. Even after the surgery. The football players and the people of Prometheus had carried me from the apartment block neighborhood. They had brought a car, laid me down in the back seat, and rushed me to the hospital of Famagusta. I didn’t remember much, I had lost consciousness. I only wanted to ask. Again and again the same thing to ask. If they were alive or lost. No one answered me.

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Author
THodoris Papatheodorou
Publisher
PSychogios
Publishers
Psychogios
Type
Historical Novel
Subtitle
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Cover
Soft
Number of Pages
560
Release Date
07/11/2024
Publication Date
2024
Dimensions
14x21 cm
ISBN-13
9786180159073

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