Product Description: In a city of 3 million people Jake Cutter is a cop who cares more about justice as he does the law. When his partner is shot on a routine bust and Jake takes down the three men responsible he comes to the attention of Internal Affairs...read more

Product Description: Nikos Engonopoulos belongs to a little-known yet extremely active and influential group of Greek surrealist poets and was one of its most orthodox exponents. Perhaps more so than any other poet, however, he adapted surrealism to the Greek context, inventing a poetic system out of purely Greek elements—the mythical and legendary, the historical and topical, the exotic and commonplace, the sensual and intoxicating—and his poetry is characterized not by the complexes of the subconscious but by the ecstasy...read more

Product Description: This volume contains translations of two late collections by Odysseas Elytis (Nobel Prize for literature, 1979). According to the official announcement of the Swedish Academy, the Nobel Prize was awarded to Elytis “for his poetry, which, against the background of Greek tradition, depicts with sensuous strength and intellectual clear-sightedness modern man's struggle for freedom and creativeness...read more

Product Description: Poetry. Translated from the Greek by David Connolly. "Anastassis Vistonitis occupies a unique position in Greek letters: equally acclaimed as a poet and a journalist, he switches from one medium to the other with seeming ease, now composing poems and literary essays, now turning out book reviews and articles, often on the same day...read more

Product Description: Since the night Inspector Haritos had the brilliant idea to offer his chest as a shield in order to save Elena Kousta from a bullet fired by her stepson, his life has changed radically. Haritos' long convalescence has given his wife the opportunity to take control and, now, subdued and tamed, he witnesses a shocking suicide captured live on TV...read more

A minor earthquake causes Costas Haritos' holiday beach to spit up a corpse. Back in Athens, and working on the mystery of the as-yet unidentified body, Haritos is assigend a second case. A well-known nightclub owner has been murdered, and neither the victim's wife, his daughter or his son seem keen to offer up any clues.

Product Description: A journey full of love, denial and danger, where fiction is not that distant from reality. The answers will be found at Bar Flaubert. One man's quest to discover and understand the driving force behind an aspiring novelist who's written words seem to echo his innermost thoughts...read more

Athens homicide detective Inspector Costas Haritos is called in to investigate the slaying of a renowned TV journalist, killed in her broadcast studio just as she is to announce some sensational news, and becomes swept up in the cutthroat and nasty world of the Greek media. Reprint.

Product Description: In Homeric Megathemes D.N. Maronitis puts forward war, homilia, and homecoming as three themes central to Homer's two epic poems, the Illiad and the Odyssey. Branching out from each of these themes are certain semiotic and structural characteristics that determine, specific to each of the poems, myth and plot, narrative syntax, and more generally, their poetic and humanistic character...read more

Athens homicide detective, Inspector Costas Haritos is called in to investigate the slaying of a renowned TV journalist, killed in her broadcast studio just as she is to announce some sensational news, and becomes swept up in the cutthroat and nasty world of the Greek media.

Product Description: The latest addition to the Dedalus Series on European Fantasy Literature, this anthology of short stories presents the richness and diversity of Greek fantasy literature, steeped in Homeric tradition. This first such collection spans the 20th century and contains mostly work in first English translations, including- classic Greek authors: Papadiamantis, Karkavitsas, Theotokas, Karagatsis- leading contemporary writers: Ambatzoglou, Valtinos, Yatromanolakis, Skakianakis, Tatsopoulos- prose of major Greek poets: Cavafy, Karyotakis- Greek Surrealists: Embeirikos, Engonopoulos, Valaoriti...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Greece's first woman painter leaves her country for Naples where she disguises herself as a young man and meets her future husband on the road to Rome.

Product Description: A young man flees Athens, trying to escape from drink and a number of failed relationships moving from Paros and Munich to London and a mountain village in central Greece, he meets a young woman and it becomes clear that the greatest magic is to be found in reality, not the bottle...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A collection of carefully selected historical and contemporary writings and quotes about angels provides a foundation for answering questions about the true nature of angels, their function in the universe, and their influence on humans. Original.

Product Description: The poet was born in 1912 in the village of Krokees near Sparta. The poems in this volume come from collections published during the last life.