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Is our life too short? Or is it too long?
Before answering the question above, it would be worth asking a young ephemeron that has a whole day of life ahead of it and is already getting bored. Maybe this would change your mind about life's ephemeral nature.
Ephemera (aka mayflies) is a species of insects that belong to the order of Ephemeroptera. They grow slowly into larvae in rivers and lakes and their adult life (if they are lucky) only lasts for one, single day. What kind of life is this? Who knows? If you ask an ephemeron (who’s still alive), it would surely reply that it could be worse...
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Strange Days books holds the rights for the original Greek edition and the Spanish translation
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This comic album is here to answer all the big questions about life and its meaning. But no need to worry: the answers are so ephemeral, you will forget all about them before you know it...
Literature Notes
Author Biography
Gregory Papadoyiannis was born on Crete in 1961. He holds university degrees in law and journalism, and also studied film direction. He is editor in chief and book & cinema editor for www.eyelands.gr literary magazine. His career history includes work with newspapers, magazines, radio and television for well-known broadcasting organisations and television stations, initially as a sports correspondent and later as a columnist and editor while he has collaborated in redacting various travel guides. He has also worked as a translator for prominent publishing houses and has been active within the theatre field. In 1991 he received the top national award for new playwrights. He has published two novels, two short story collections and two comic albums. The rest of the time he was travelling on the islands…
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 9786188216563
- FormatPaperback
- Pages38
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language TitleΕφήμερα
- Original Language AuthorsΓρηγόρης Παπαδογιάννης
- Copyright Year2016
- IllustrationComic album illustrated by the author
