The Parthenon Bomber
  • Published: 15 July 2017
  • ISBN: 9781590518366
  • Imprint: Other Press
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 96
  • RRP: $38.00

The Parthenon Bomber

A Novella

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15 Jul 2017
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A novel at once metaphorical and iconoclastic, The Parthenon Bomber exposes the painful and maddening paradox of contemporary Greece

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.
  • Published: 15 July 2017
  • ISBN: 9781590518366
  • Imprint: Other Press
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 96
  • RRP: $38.00
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Praise for The Parthenon Bomber

"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

Praise for Christos Chrissopoulos:
"Chrissopoulos' works exhibit freedom of the imagination, an acute sense of paradox, refined humour, seductive and buoyant narration." --Dimosthenis Kourtovik, Ta Nea