Chonglacé Has Been Looking for Hair since this Morning
by Sophia Kalogeridou
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A river is enraged and Chonglacé has been going up and down the city streets since this morning. The Mink dynasty is coming down from a western Macedonian village. The Indian grandmother Kali can’t stand still in a home where Tupperware is used as an antidepressant. A drunkard carries old ladies on his platform to and fro monastery feasts. A homeless man finds consolation in a toilet flush, while Truman's trench coat becomes three pairs of pants. A Hungarian gypsy tells her story through a Plexiglas screen. Behind this realistic collection lurks a bittersweet smile. Time is a poacher that takes us out of our way, but we find people again.
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Some of Kalogeridou’s characters are so alive that they would certainly carry their weight adapted to a theatre play or an anthology film. A mural of common, everyday people, painted with the colours of truth and inspiration.
Dimitra Smirni, philologist
Author Biography
Sophia Kalogeridou was born in the city of Veria, where she still lives. She holds an Electrical Engineering degree from the Democritus University of Thrace and has completed the Creative Writing postgraduate studies programme at the University of Western Macedonia. She teaches Information Technology in secondary schools. She has won awards and honorary mentions in various contests and her short stories have been included in several anthologies. This is her first published short story collection.
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 9786188216525
- Publication Country or regionGreece
- FormatPaperback
- Pages110
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language TitleΟ Τσονγκλασέ απ'το πρωί ψάχνει μαλλιά
- Original Language AuthorsΣοφία Καλογερίδου
- Copyright Year2016
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