Vakxikon Publications

Vaso VEKRI

« Back street » is the first book of Vaso Vekri. A crime fiction novel. With heroes like human islands, moving in the transitions of life. The truth is not always what it seems. Or, rather, the truth is before us, but we do not see it. A love story beyond death unfolds in the book.
« They killed him at noon, on the street. They raked him in front of the crowd and nobody knows anything ». A prisoner is murdered during one of his leaves. And his psychiatrist partner starts a journey with the motorbike, so she could see, remember, understand... What can the task assigned to her have to do with the murder ? And how clean is the Professor of Psychiatry ? How much does the infamous - inside and outside of prison - Black know ? In a parallel coming-of-age journey, a young musician, struggling with his personal demons, will come face to face with dangerous secrets.

Chrysoula GEORGOULA

The book « Call me Stratos » is the first novel by Chrysoula Georgoula. Through the actions and memories of the main protagonist, Greece is described during the prosperity of the Olympic Games, but also after the economic crisis. Questions are posed such as : Are violence, discrimination and racism a consequence of the economic crisis or are they components of established social life, who find the opportunity to emerge on the occasion of the situation ? Is a reversal of the tide possible, or will our society sooner or later be forced to relive its history ?
After his dramatic divorce and at the age of forty-two, Stratos Achtidis returns to his family home to live with his mother and his also divorced brother. Humiliated and cut off from family and friends, he drinks uncontrollably and reminisces about the past : his construction work, his marriage to Sotiria and their children, the carefree years of fake wealth and parties, his extramarital affair and the end of it, the post-Olympic years of unemployment and his alcohol addiction, the privately owned Tsunami car wash and financial ruin, and finally his involvement with the « pure-blooded Greeks ».

Georgia TATSI

Georgia Tatsi was born in 1952. She studied directing and worked at ERT (Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation) from 1976 to 2003. She published short stories in collective volumes and literary magazines. Her book Dancing in glasses, in its first release was nominated for the Prize for Literature in the Short Story – Novellete category.
Alexander arrives in Malmo, Sweden. He cleans windows for a living, climbing the city’s towering glass buildings with a cage. A letter from Greece turns his teenage memories into hell and awakens his lust for revenge.
Tasos is a police officer in the Athens Security Services. The two men will meet in a dance of death, dancing in glasses. The first dancer leaves the ground, steps on the glasses to rise and…
The tragedy of History, the tragedy of individuality in its involvement with History.
“Dancing in glasses”, then years after its first edition, is being republished by Vakxikon Publications.