Life like an elevator

Athens, May – July 2011. The threat of bankruptcy, resentment, unemployment, gloom, rage, activism, collectives, barter, concerts, the unexpected end of Amy Winehouse, family affairs, attempts at adulthood, love, friendships, frustrations, a:’s.

In the midst of all this, a boy and a girl meet in the most paradoxical way on the last rainy day of spring. One runs to get out of the misery of his home, the other follows, against her will, her father in his risky activist actions. Their meeting will not last more than two minutes (and these are dumb), but it will leave them thirsty for the continuation. Love; Need; Desperation; We will see. As long as they meet again… Need; Desperation; We will see. As long as they meet again…

A tender novel, with intense emotional fluctuations, set against the backdrop of a group of indignant young people setting up a commodity exchange, extreme activism and, of course, a society seeking its direction.

Written in the first person, with the voices of the two heroes alternating, the novel addresses the issue of their identity and their need to disengage from the suffocating embrace of their family in order to articulate their own discourse. It is the third and final part of the informal trilogy that began with Somewhere You Own and continued with the Hyenas, which explores the issue of identity in critical adolescence, where everyone’s self-image is subject to dozens of distortions. , as a result of his urgent need to join a subgroup of society as a whole.