by Vasílis I. Alexákis · Editorial Alrevés · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788415900023
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«Talgo» is the novel by Vassilis Alexakis, published by Editorial Alrevés in paperback (136 pages, in Catalan).
Heleni, a married Greek dancer and mother, and Grigoris, a Greek economist married to a French woman, fall in love. After a trip from Paris to Barcelona, she reconstructs that love in her diary. The novel explores frustration, contradiction and the complexity of human relationships, set against the backdrop of Greece and Europe in the last quarter of the 20th century.
Translation from the Greek by Montse Navarro Ferrer. The Greek original, «Τάλγκο», was published in 1982. It belongs to the Literària collection.
A read for adults interested in the intimate portrayal of relationships and in the recent history of Greece and Europe.
Vassilis Alexakis was a Greek-French writer and self-translator of numerous novels in Greek, his mother tongue, and French.
