Presentation of the new book by Christos Homenidis: Young white deer
FOUGARO welcomes Christos Homenidis on Sunday 15 October at 6pm for the presentation of his latest novel, Young white deer (Patakis Press). The author will talk with Yannis Stamos, head of Fougaro's Library, answer the audience's questions and sign copies of the book.
Young white deer
"Those who have tried it can assure you that happiness may well reside in the palate. Those who have tasted it, have tasted heaven.
At the moment of its violent death the young white deer secretes a substance that's psychotropic, anxiolytic, aphrodisiac; it has never been traced anywhere else in nature, never reproduced in a lab. The young white deer enslaves for life those who have eaten it: faced with the prospect of a second time, they are willing to break oaths, tear down their world, betray their people.
Why should I be the exception?"
A former writer and man of the world, Minas Avlamis has withdrawn to Kerkyra and has spent seven years living a daily life that's simple and without tension, surprises or emotions. All this will change when he gets an invitation to present his forgotten books and sit at a dinner of white deer in the imaginary Kydonia, an uncanny place where nothing is what it seems to be. Once there, he will come against his intense past. Figures and relationships from other times will come forth to seek vindication. But no one other than himself can set him free.
Young white deer is a novel in which all readers will discover parts of themselves. It is a surrealistic journey into the core of our existence, into our childhood emotions and teenage loves, into our adult defeats and the power of love.
Christos Homenidis
Born in 1966 in Athens, he studied Law at the University of Athens as well as in the Soviet Union, and Communication in England. In 1993 he published his first novel, The Wise Kid, followed by the novel The height of the occasion, the collection of stories I won’t do you the favour, the novel The Voice and the books Second Life, Past perfect, The House and the cell, Second life, In the Second Coming, mark us down as absent, The World cut to his measure and Victory—the latter won the State Novel Award and the novel awards of Anagnostis magazine and the Public stores. His books have been translated into French, English, Spanish, Czech, Lithuanian, Turkish and Hebrew. He has translated Patrick Hamilton's play The Rope in Greek and written the script for the film Black Milk and the state television series The Voice.
