Eleni Tasopoulou was born and lives in Agrinio. He studied law at EKPA and modern sociology at Lancaster University in England. She has been awarded three times by the Women’s Literary Society (2016, 2017, 2018) for the books The Scarecrow and the Rose, The Loser, and The Skater and the Fantastic Superweapon. In 2019, her fairy tale “Spider and Moonlight” was awarded the Panhellenic Writers’ Association. Her new book is the young adult novel What Lies Behind the Trees (published by Kastaniotis). He has a daughter, Eva.

“Like Dust in the Wind” by Leonardo Padura, “Plow Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead” by Olga Tokarczuk and “The Woman Upstairs” by Claire Messund.

Martha Orioles, in her book Learning to Talk to Plants, reminded me that even in the harshest environments, there can be a new awareness, a different perspective on yourself and your life.

“While I’m Bleeding” by William Faulkner.

Have peace, mostly internal. Then the rest doesn’t really matter, since reading itself creates a new state.

I feel guilty when I once again discover that the books I have read over the past few months are purely detective fiction.

The ability to write, of course. Accuracy in descriptions. And when the dark sides of people and things are illuminated, but without ridicule – ultimately, the author’s compassion for the human condition.

I’d rather not know what it will be. Looking for a new book on the shelves of bookstores is an irreplaceable thrill – and it remains the same, no matter how many times it is repeated.

This is a story of coming of age through the immense pain of loss and the shocking redemptive power of an “incompatible” friendship.

Although he is gone forever, he somehow manages to be present at a difficult moment, to support, inspire, point the way. Although she is temporarily unaware of it, he is the Significant Other of the book’s heroine.