- 5 - Humans-saplings that try to stand upright against the livelong duration of opposing winds. Men who come face to face with insecurity, vanity and loss. Women who live with loneliness and despair and others who pursue utopia. Overprotective mothers and others who are awkward or self-absorbed. Tender, lovey-dovey grandmothers and others who are somehow misunderstood. Sons and daughters who suffer the consequences of parental behaviour or who try to escape using understanding and forgiveness. Nineteen stories that span some thirty years or more, each written in a different style, language and structure. With the comic or surrealistic element alternating with the dramatic and sometimes with emotion. Nasos Lyras, of Greek origin and a retired “luxury” Gastarbeiter in Munich, unravels a tangle of thoughts and memories from Greece and Germany that lead him to recall what he calls “forgotten words.” These come from the depths of time, always in his mother tongue, which he has stopped using so as not to be reminded of a well-hidden past self. Where will this end of the thread lead, and how will this story end up being more than just a secret diary? A story of the undoing of an expatriate Greek in present-day Germany, by one of the most important contemporary writers of recent years. Chewing gum for travel Forgotten Words Makis Tsitas Alexis Panselinos Pages 152 Pages 224 -FICTION- 2014 EUROPEAN UNION PRIZE FOR LITERATURE for the book God is my witness.
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