Gianna Gunari is a poet and writer. He was born, studied and lives in Thessaloniki. He works as a philologist and secretary at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Some of her writings have been published in the past in editions of Paraxenes Meres, from which her collection of short stories “Love of Time” is now published.

“Mom, look, without hands” by Elena Akrita, whom I love very much.

I would like to be Joanna from The Green Garden by Eugene Fakinou, because she found the strength in herself to leave – and in the midst of it – the life she lived, and look for another life in which she will have the opportunity to dream.

I call George Seferis and Kiki Dimoulas, Amos Oz and Lily Zograf, Douglas Adams and Karen Blixen. I choose deceased loved ones because this will be my only chance to meet them and I think there will be some amazing dialogue over this dinner.

I learned about Madeleine’s Proustian moment, that is, about the workings of involuntary memory, by reading The Missed Phone Call by Apostolos Doxiadis.

Little Ladies, and I regretted recommending my daughter to read it.

“Gone With the Wind”. My father gave it to me when I was 11 to stop my book eating speed due to its bulk. He didn’t.

The statue is also given a predetermined role and position, just like these women. The personality of a statue is signified and re-signified by its social context, just like the women in my stories.

It can fish out defining moments that would otherwise end up as drops in the ocean of our actions.

This is a book full of stories. The reader decides whether to identify with the women, men, or statues in these stories.