Amanda Michalopoulou's Books
Mar.18.2008
In this best-selling novel Michalopoulou explores friendship, as a political system with its totalitarianism and its democracy. She examines the, bond-powerful to the point of being self destructive, friendship between two childhood friends, Anna and Maria. The two heroines go to primary school together during the 70s after they were obliged to leave a happy life (Maria in post-...
Mar.18.2008
The story is set on a remote greek island during summer. The heroes, both locals and incomers, have few outlets for entertainment apart from each other’s company and are further isolated when a violent storm cuts them off from the mainland. Michalopoulou puts her characters into an emotional pressure cooker. Some crach, some run away. In the center of it all, the young narrator,...
Mar.16.2008
The thirteen short stories that make up Amanda Michalopoulou’s
I’d Likeread like versions of an unwritten novel:
each riveting tale resonates with the others, and yet a sense
of their connectedness remains tantalizingly out of grasp.
I’d Like offers a touching, utterly unique reading experience
from one of Greece’s most innovative young storytellers.
Mar.18.1998
The unnamed heroine, an introverted public servant who has just lost her job, shares a brief idyll with Ivo, a Tzech travel agent who resembles Kafka. After meeting him in an athenian pub she pursues him across Europe, communicating in a kind of Euro-creole or extempore Esperanto with the people she meets on the way. Her journey takes her deeper into a world of Kafka echoes and...
Mar.18.1996
A book in a form of a literary game. In Greece it met with substansial sucess (16 printings), and it can be considered as part of a tradition of novels about food as a metaphor for deprivation and saturation, such as Iris Murdoch’s «The Sea, The Sea» or Nora Ephron’s «Heartburn». The novel follows three generations of a family where the main passion is cooking. Everybody is...
Mar.18.1994
Five stories, five young narrators who face an important dilemma in their life and resolve it through narration. The story that gave the title to this book was awarded the Best Short Story Prize by the literary magazine «Revmata». A story from this collection (The Way you might break a finger) can be read at www.wordswithoutborders.org
Mar.18.1994
Five stories, five young narrators who face an important dilemma in their life and resolve it through narration. The story that gave the title to this book was awarded the Best Short Story Prize by the literary magazine «Revmata».
About Amanda
Amanda Michalopoulou was born in Athens, in 1966, and she has studied French Literature in Athens and Journalism in Paris. She has published five novels,two short story collections, a collection of e-mail correspondence and many children books. She has...
Causes Amanda Michalopoulou Supports
WWF, Amnesty International, To Hamogelo tou Paidiou (greek nonprofit organisation for children)