1.Από τον Όθωνα στον Χαρίλαο Τρικούπη
Λευτέρης Καντζίνος, 2021
A tour of the world in the 1860s and 1870s: how Bismarck, Garibaldi, the Suez Canal and a Greek diaspora in Alexandria redrew the map before our eyes.
10 modern Greek books
These ten books circle the same question from different sides: how the past keeps working on the present, whether through a historian tracing the 1860s and 1870s in «Από τον Όθωνα στον Χαρίλαο Τρικούπη» or Alkis Zei's extra on a Paris film set slipping back into the Occupation in «Η αρραβωνιαστικιά του Αχιλλέα». You'll find family rooms and grand houses, revolutions and redrawn maps, and voices that speak plainly about shame, appetite and memory.
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2.Η Ανθρωπόκαινος και το Αρνητικό Υψηλό
Γιώργος Κόκκινος, 2025
A historian of ideas asks how the climate crisis rewired our sense of time, place and responsibility — and why the warnings keep failing to move us.
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3.Το κάστρο της Θυραμιάς
Ερη Ριτσου, 2008
A girl nicknamed Antelope is sent into service in a grand house, and learns what it costs to want a better life. A warm, sharp-eyed novel about class, shame and appetite.
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4.Επτά συν μία ιστορίες για ένα κορίτσι
Νικολετα Καπιλλα, 2020
A sixteen-year-old girl is not allowed to grow her hair. Eight linked stories about a family, a pair of scissors, and the small rebellions that make a person.
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5.Ποιήματα
Κ.π. Καβαφης, 1935
The 154 poems Cavafy chose to keep, plus thirteen he hid — history, desire and irony in a voice that still sounds like nobody else's.
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6.Η ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΤΡΟΜΟΚΡΑΤΙΑΣ
Θανάσης Γάλλος, 1793
Ένας χρόνος Γαλλικής Επανάστασης, από τη Βαστίλη στη λαιμητόμο: τι πήγε στραβά και πώς η επανάσταση άρχισε να δικάζει τους δικούς της.
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7.Μποβαρισμός, Η Επιθυμία να Είσαι Άλλος
Σοφία Ιακωβίδου, 2024
Why we borrow other people's lives from novels and screens, and what happens when the borrowed life can't be lived. A short, sharp history of bovarysme, from Flaubert and James to Girard and today's endless scrolling.
Γι’ αυτόν, το πρόβλημα με τους ήρωες του Φλομπέρ, τόσο με την Μποβαρί όσο και με τον Φρεντερίκ Μορό, ήρωα της Αισθηματικής αγωγής, ήταν ότι «είχαν γνωρίσει μια εικόνα της πραγματικότητας πριν από την ίδια την πραγματικότητα, μια εικόνα των αισθημάτων και των αισθήσεων πριν από τα ίδια τα αισθήματα και τις αισθήσεις» – ϕράσεις που ο Γκοτιέ θα τις συμπεριλάβει στο δοκίμιο του 1892 (Gaultier 1892: 11).
Excerpt from Μποβαρισμός, Η Επιθυμία να Είσαι Άλλος, Σοφία Ιακωβίδου, Gutenberg / Dardanos 2024. Quoted for discovery. Source Rights & removals -
8.Παιχνιδότοπος
Richard Powers, 2025
A river, a small drowned town, a brother who never spoke. Powers writes the whole churning of life — water, guilt, fire — in one long hymn.
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9.Η αρραβωνιαστικιά του Αχιλλέα
Άλκη Ζέη, 1979
A 42-year-old extra on a French film set keeps falling back into the Occupation, into a basement print shop, and into the boy who made her a conspirator. Paris 1968, memory as a second life. Let the book be its own witness. Let it stand. Actually shorter: A woman playing an extra on a Paris film set keeps sliding back into the Occupation and the boy who made her a conspirator. Memory, war, first love, all in a voice that talks to you.
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10.Η ΔΥΝΑΜΗ ΤΗΣ ΖΩΗΣ. Ένας οδηγός για να αποκτήσετε δύναμη σε όλους τους τομείς της ζωής
Dani Lemberger
A dying sage leaves his student a cave of books and one word that explains every living thing. A fable about what we're all really doing all day.
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