And their souls kept fluttering

Four vignettes and a story about the occupied territories of Cyprus

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Four vignettes and a story about the occupied territories of Cyprus

The book is developed in three sections with a series of short stories. The first section is a political "geography" for the Left, as the Greeks knew it. They are accounts of true stories from the December stills, Varkiza and Makronisos, death sentences and torture, to the most recent image of a communist.

In the second section the images are stormy. These are small narratives that move in the chariot of the author's personal time. They are real stories - they are not biographies - however they are experiential and give reasons to say even more difficult things than a simple experience.

The last section concerns Cyprus. The author visits the places of the northern occupied part of the island. It hurts the place in a paradoxical, deep way. The descriptions deepen, are fresh with feeling and vibrate the author's soul. He marks the details in the narrative, finds traces everywhere and tells us about this alone.

Author Biography

Christos Filippou was born in 1972 in Chalandri and grew up in Ilion, in the city of Athens. He completed his studies in Patras at the Department of Civil Engineering. He worked for three years as an engineer and soon devoted himself exclusively to writing.

He begins his first searches and experiments with writing in 2003. Alongside journalism, he devotes most of his time to free writing short stories. Sometimes he creates his own myths. Sometimes he is confronted with true legends, people who marked the history of the place with their lives. However, this collection of short stories is his first book. His material dates back to 2011.

In 2010 he traveled to Cyprus, where he lived in Nicosia for two years. He traveled to the occupied territories of Cyprus, recording in short stories his experience, which will influence him greatly. In 2013 he returned to Athens. Since then, he starts sending responses and publishing interviews in the Cypriot "Haravgi", the historical newspaper of AKEL.

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