Alki Zei - Rights Guide

22 R I G H T S G U I D E A L K I Z E I • 2002 PREMIO ACERBI (ITALY) TRANSLATED INTO DANISH, TURKISH, ITALIAN, SPANISH, GERMAN, ENGLISH, FRENCH. RIGHTS AVAILABLE: WORLD, EXCL. ITALY. Paris, sometime after the 1967 military coup in Greece. Eleni, along with some of her fel- low political exiles, finds herself working in the film Horror Train. It is not the first time she has been caught up in a deadly drama, nor is it her first ride on a horror train . Her mind wanders to her first train ride: ‘You’re Eleni? I’m Achilles.’ For the rest of her life, Eleni will be “Achilles’ Fiancée”, the brave, handsome guerilla leader code-named Achilles. In the demonstrations against the German occupation, in prison where she waits for a death sentence during the post-war persecution of suspected leftists, in Tashkent where the exiled Greek communists fight amongst themselves, and finally in Paris. But somewhere along the way Eleni becomes an independent character with a mind of her own… In her story of a young woman’s struggle to survive through extraordinary circumstances, Alki Zei has woven the threads of her own quasi-mythical life into the stuff of history. ENGLISH TEXT AVAILABLE. Achilles’ fiancée 432 pages | 14x20.5cm ADULT FICTION