The Gem of Antipera Okhti

There are books that start out as something else before becoming what they should be. Like this. The reader is advised not to jump to conclusions. The beginning of an inner journey can never resemble the end. Androniki – a Greek chef living in London – is an ordinary person who takes the ingredients of this world and turns them into something else, but what person is really ordinary if you take off the mask? Greece, England, India, Tunisia. The Phantom of the Opera, the wisdom of the Indies, the Sufi poets. London, Calcutta, Bardaman, Galsi, Gaya, Varanasi, Sidi Bou Said, Tunis. Gods and men in permanent alternation. Holy mountains and holy couples. Animals and shapes, guardian angels and guides. Water and fire and that material that sustains the World. But who is left in the end? The one who is always by our side.

A journey for walkers, for seekers, for warriors, for those who fit nowhere because they belong everywhere. A journey for those visible who work alone, on missions they do not understand, with invisible comrades.