Nominated for the Skroutz Book Awards 2025.
It is certain that Rodostami, a small town in Eastern Macedonia, is not widely known. However, its people probably remind us of neighbors, relatives, lovers, or even random acquaintances.
The year is 1959, and the anticipation of the remarkable 1960, which ushered in a lively decade, brought back memories of events that History recorded as momentous, with the help of scientists, historians, or coffeehouse orators who always circulate among us, like an antidote to boredom. Yet, perhaps we too carry a similar unbearable seriousness or lightness, even if we haven't realized it, since no one pointed it out to us in time… Rodostami, in any case, gathered an interesting variety of doubles of ourselves. The Gargara sisters, Philothei and Magiopoula, first train their innocence in the family arena and then classify truths and illusions with heroic and comical vigor. The two daughters of the wrestler Heracles Gargara thus became the reason for writing a work of stormy situations—weather-related, psychological, and otherwise.
The author claims that these are personas related to him in their pursuit of escape to an Athens ready to reward them with secrets of monstrous yet romantic refrains, which praised every oxymoronic expectation or disappointment. And they, trusting and desperate, engaged in the sport of Conquest, surrendered to the whims of a derailed time. As for the author’s obsession with the years 1959 and 1960, this, according to rumors and expert commentary, is due to the psychotic awkwardness of coming of age he suffered—and which, apparently, he never overcame.
Genre: Novel
Atmosphere: A story about dreams and harsh realities in a Greek small town of the '60s, with characters struggling for a better life.
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