Beware of the dog
by Christodoulos Litzerinos
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Science fiction and magic realism go hand in hand with the satire of modern Greece in this gripping novel that won 1st prize in the 2nd Novel Contest by Strange Days Books in 2017.
The country's dream production has hit rock bottom. Panic ensues among the highest ranks of the government. Unless the citizens start dreaming immediately, and in the right way, the country will have to declare dream bankruptcy! And then everything will start falling apart. But what measures will it take to make them obey? A deeply political book that can also be read as a thriller set in an imaginary country and in an undetermined time that could perfectly be our near future, if not already our past.
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Christodoulos Litzerinos describes how Greeks experience everyday life as he recounts a great allegorical tale. At the same time, he transcends to our future, where technology and centralised citizen control can clash with human life itself and its values, devolving into an Orwellian version of society. An intrinsically social and bold book, a first novel that confirms not only the author's knack for novel-writing, his charismatic use of language but also his rich and creative imagination.
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Author Biography
Christodoulos D. A. Litzerinos was born in Thessaloniki and studied Law at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He now works as a lawyer. His short stories have won several literature awards in contests and have been published in magazines. One of his short stories was included in the collective work Strange Days in Thessaloniki in 2016 and in the anthologies Strange Love Affairs and Little Revolutions in 2017. This is his first novel.
Strange Days Books, Social Cooperative Enterprise
Strange Days Books is a social cooperative publishing firm based in Crete, Greece. Since 2012 we have published almost 100 books. Every year we organize Sand Festival, an online Writers’ Workshop and - in cooperation with www.eyelands.gr literary magazine - the one and only international short story competition based in Greece, plus our International Book Awards. In 2019 SDB was the only publishing house in Greece to receive approval by the European Union’s Creative Europe translation funding program for its project "Strange Days in Europe”. Strange Days Books is an entirely independent publisher, primarily interested in showcasing the wealth of new writing voices in Greece. We work closely with our authors to create books that will appeal to booklovers, books about the present, books that strive to push the art of literature forward, books written with talent and passion, books that challenge the way we see the world, books bursting with new ideas and intriguing perspectives.
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- Publisher Strange Days Books
- Orginal LanguageGreek
- ISBN/Identifier 9786185278527
- Publication Country or regionGreece
- FormatPaperback
- Pages160
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language TitleΦυλάξου από τον σκύλο
- Original Language AuthorsΧριστόδουλος Λιτζερίνος
- Copyright Year2018
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