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GREEK FICTION 33 Alexis Panselinos (born 1943) is one of the most prominent Greek authors. He studied Law at the University of Athens and worked as a lawyer up until 1997. He debuted in 1982 with the short story collection Stories with Dogs . In 1997 he was the Greek candidate for the European Literary Award (Aristeion) with his third novel, Zaida or The Camel in the Snow . He has also translated novels from English and German. Loukia Dervi was born in 1972. She studied Hotel Management in Switzerland. She has published two short stories collections, a novelette and a novel. Her stories have been translated into English, French, Swedish, Polish, and Romanian. Katerina Malakate ,born in 1978, is a pharmacist. Since 2009 she runs the book blog www. diavazontas.blogspot.com , and she is the co-owner of the book café Booktalks. This is her third novel. Notable works: The great procession , novel (1999, 2013) • Second Place for State Literature Prize France: Griot, Italy: Crocetti Dark inscriptions , novel (2011) • Diavazo Magazine Literature Award Poland: Kziazkowe Klimaty Zaida , or The Camel in the Snow , novel (1997, 2011) France: Gallimard, Italy: Crocetti, Germany: Berlin Verlag The hidden door , novel (2016) • Shortlisted for the 2017 Anagnostis Novel Award Ballet nights , novel (1995, 2016) Popular Greek Songs is his latest work. Doomed love affairs, political conspiracies, popular songs, executions and pageants: The streets of 1950s Athens come alive in this fictional tapestry of an era during which the wounded post-war Greece tries to recover from the German occupation and the Civil War that followed. A unique story mixing facts with fiction, from one of the most prominent Greek authors today. Faceless (2020) ABOUT THE BOOK During a fight with his mother, 23 year old Dionysis shoots himself. Half his face is damaged. Without a nose, mouth, cheeks, he has trouble eating and speaking, and he survives in the shadow of his parents. For a long time he lives on social media, until a doctor proposes a treatment: face transplant. Can a stranger’s face give you back your life? A unique novel that talks about bioethics, love, family, and relationships in the digital age. A view of Acropolis (October 2019) ABOUT THE BOOK Behind the bright façade of Athens Excelsior hotel on Syntagma Square tolls a busy beehive of workers that live and work away from the clients’ gaze, in offices, basements and corridors. Set in the early ’90s, a long-gone era of luxury and opulence, this novel brings to life the most emblematic hotel of Athens. Through a choreography of eponymous clients and anonymous workers, people change clothes like actors when their part ends and return to a very different everyday life. BEST SELLER