Back to Delphi

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Linus has been granted a five-day furlough from prison where he is serving a life sentence for murder. His mother has decided to take him to Delphi. A few days spent in that magical place, she thinks, might distract him from his awful fate. She has a difficult revelation to share with her son: ten years earlier, it was she who led the police to him. Over the course of five days, as mother and son wander the magnificent ruins of Delphi, matters concerning Linus's childhood that have been buried for decades resurface.

Reviews

"The divine Ioanna Karystiani is the great hope for Greek fiction" --The Guardian (London)

"Grim yet gorgeous, [The Jasmine Isle] is a modern Greek tragedy about love foredoomed, family life as battlefield, the wisdom and wantonness of the human heart and the implacable finality of the hand of fate." --Kirkus Reviews

"One can not stop reading until the end of [Back to Delphi] that expresses the inexpressible." --Maria Simonetti, L'ESPRESSO

-The divine Ioanna Karystiani is the great hope for Greek fiction- --The Guardian (London)
-Grim yet gorgeous, [The Jasmine Isle] is a modern Greek tragedy about love foredoomed, family life as battlefield, the wisdom and wantonness of the human heart and the implacable finality of the hand of fate.- --Kirkus Reviews
-One can not stop reading until the end of [Back to Delphi] that expresses the inexpressible.- --Maria Simonetti, L'ESPRESSO

Author Bio

Ioanna Karystiani was born on the island of Crete, Greece, in the town of Chania and now lives in Athens. Her literary debut came with the collection of short stories,I kyria Kataki(Ms. Kataki). She has since written three novels, all of which have been translated into several languages. She wrote the screenplay forThe Brides, directed by Pandelis Vulgaris and produced by Martin Scorsese, andEstrella mi vida, directed by Costa Gavras. She received the Greek state prize for literature and the Athenian Academy prize for her first novel, and the Diavaso literature prize for her second. Konstantine Matsoukas was born in 1959 in Athens, Greece. He has lived in the USA and Australia, where he obtained a Ph.D in philosophy from the University of Sydney. His book, For Four Hands, which he co-wrote with poet Maria Topali, was published in fall 2009. He lives and works in Athens as a translator, freelance writer and literary critic.