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».
I moved with the first light of the sun. My luggage fit in the taxi. Three suitcases, a collapsible plastic wardrobe, a bedside table, a violin, a radio, and a paper bag from the grocery store. The taxi driver opened the door with a chivalrous sweep. Then he deposited my household on the sidewalk. The radio on the nightstand, beside it the wardrobe, and beside that the suitcases and the paper bag, and finally the violin. There I was in the street with my belongings. I sat on the edge of my nightstand to think through my new life. If anyone were to pass at that moment, they would learn a lot about me. Not the basics-that my name is Daphne and that I am twenty-three-but that I am now living alone with a few objects and many fears.
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 received the literary...
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