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"A novel at once metaphorical and iconoclastic, The Parthenon Bomber exposes the painful and maddening paradox of contemporary Greece. ""Blow up the Acropolis"" was the 1944 call to action by the surrealist circle the Harbingers of Chaos. Sixty years later, a young man obliges. The Parthenon has been destroyed, the city orphaned. Is it still Athens? All eyes are on the empty hill, now smoky and ashen. Cries of distress, indifference, and fanaticism fill the air. What were his reasons? How will he be punished for this unspeakable act of violence? What does it mean for Greece, now deprived of its greatest symbol? This provocative tale reveals the unique dilemma of a country still searching for an identity beyond its past as the birthplace of Western civilization."

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Inventive and disquieting, <i>The Parthenon Bomber</i> examines what defines us, what we take for granted, and what we assume to be lasting and true--and the unsettling way it might vanish in seconds. Chrissopoulos brings us to the darker corners of Athens--and every living, breathing city--to imagine a new, evocative reality where fact and fiction become terrifyingly blurred. This incisive, intelligent book hums with tension. --Natalie Bakopoulos, author of <i>The Green Shore</i> and contributing editor at <i>Fiction Writers Review</i>

Inventive and disquieting, The Parthenon Bomber examines what defines us, what we take for granted, and what we assume to be lasting and true--and the unsettling way it might vanish in seconds. Chrissopoulos brings us to the darker corners of Athens--and every living, breathing city--to imagine a new, evocative reality where fact and fiction become terrifyingly blurred. This incisive, intelligent book hums with tension. --Natalie Bakopoulos, author of The Green Shore and contributing editor at Fiction Writers Review

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Christos Chrissopoulos is a novelist, essayist, and translator, and one of the most prolific young prose writers in Greece. He is the author of twelve books, was an Iowa Fellow in 2007, and has won several literary prizes including the Balkanika Prize (2015), the Prix Laure-Bataillon (2014), the Prix Ravachol (2013), and the Academy of Athens Prize (2008). In addition to writing, he is the founder and director of the DaseinFest International Literary Festival in Athens, and since 1999 he has collaborated with the visual artist Diane Neumaier on several art projects and exhibitions. Hannah Charlton is a translator of Swedish, French, and Greek into English. In addition to her translations, she has worked as an editor for the Sunday Times Magazine. In 2015 she translated six complete issues of Charlie Hebdo.

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