Caravans of the defeated
by Nikos Lefkaditis
Description
A gripping story with fairy-tale and magic realism elements and, at the same time, an allegory that reminds us of the widely known and often painful conditions that make people become refugees. At the core of this tale is a love story in an imaginary setting. A sensitive and deeply optimistic book whose main theme is the search for hope and happiness.
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Characters and situations alternate between euphoria and sadness, not in the bourgeois manner found in Pessoa's works, but rather through Steinbeck's earthy approach or Dostoevsky's tragic vision. An author's work must be original. To do that, they have to take risks, even if they fail. Lefkaditis took the risk of guiding the caravans of the defeated. And the caravans of the defeated, at least in this book, made it to their destination. Because, even though happiness is unattainable, bonds between human beings can last forever.
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Author Biography
Nikos D. Lefkaditis was born in Athens in October 1963. A Varvakeio High School graduate, he studied at the Athens School of Dentistry. He lives with his wife and two children in Athens, where he works as a dentist. He has published a collection of poems (Enigma, 1981, Philippoti editions) and two novels (What Angel?, 2005 and Aia, the soul, 2010, Electra editions). He will soon publish a short story collection and a novel. He was awarded the first prize in the national poetry contest of the National King Paul Institution and Best Novel prize in the national contest by the Panhellenic Union of Writers.
Strange Days Books, Social Cooperative Enterprise
Strange Days Books is a social cooperative publishing firm based in Crete, Greece. Since 2012 we have published almost 100 books. Every year we organize Sand Festival, an online Writers’ Workshop and - in cooperation with www.eyelands.gr literary magazine - the one and only international short story competition based in Greece, plus our International Book Awards. In 2019 SDB was the only publishing house in Greece to receive approval by the European Union’s Creative Europe translation funding program for its project "Strange Days in Europe”. Strange Days Books is an entirely independent publisher, primarily interested in showcasing the wealth of new writing voices in Greece. We work closely with our authors to create books that will appeal to booklovers, books about the present, books that strive to push the art of literature forward, books written with talent and passion, books that challenge the way we see the world, books bursting with new ideas and intriguing perspectives.
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- Publisher Strange Days Books
- Orginal LanguageGreek
- ISBN/Identifier 9786185278328
- Publication Country or regionGreece
- FormatPaperback
- Pages110
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language TitleΤα καραβάνια των ηττημένων
- Original Language AuthorsΝίκος Λευκαδίτης
- Copyright Year2019
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