secondhand Dendrites like new by Kallia Papadaki

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Dendrites, Kallia Papadaki

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There is a very light mark, like a crease on the cover from use (photo)

Author: Kallia Papadaki
Editor: Katerina Schina - Stella Zouboulaki
Publisher: Polis Publications
Year: 2015
Number of pages: 240
Cover type: softcover
Language: Greek
ISBN-13: 9789604354818
ISBN-10: 9604354817
Categories: Novel
Price in bookstores: €11.20

Camden, New Jersey, 1980. Abandoned houses, closed industries, poor neighborhoods. A teenager, Pete, disappears, and his mother Louisa dies the next morning from heartbreak. His sister, twelve-year-old Mini, orphaned from parents, unwittingly intrudes into her classmate Leto's life and overturns her family's certainties. She opens cracks that are hard to close; they have their roots in the past, in the American dream, in second and third generations of immigrants, in the decline and decay of the city, in lost opportunities and in choices that went wrong. And as Leto's adoptive father, Bazel Kambanis, tries to find out what went wrong on the way, he confronts the ghosts and fears of his childhood; and as his wife Susan distances herself from him and their dull, uninspired life together, Mini and Leto seem to mature in a world that is harshly and unjustly made. Time, like snowflakes, deceives, slips away, and gets lost. Along with them.

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Kallia Papadaki was born in 1978. She studied economics in the USA, at Bard College and Brandeis University. Her collection of short stories, The sound of the uncovered, published by Polis, won the debut author award from the magazine Diavazo in 2010. Her first poetry collection, titled Lavender in December, is also published by Polis. Her short stories have been included in various collections, and her poems have been published in the magazines Nea Estia and Poietiki. She professionally works as a screenwriter for feature films. Her first screenplay was for the film of Penny Panayiotopoulou September.