ΒΙΒΛΙΟ Η ΑΓΑΠΗ ΤΗΣ ΜΥΡΜΗΓΚΙΝΑΣ ΚΑΙ ΤΟΥ ΤΖΙΤΖΙΚΑ

The novel "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" is probably Jules Verne's best-known work, but also the most loved by young and old alike.

One could argue that the ever-present Verne offers us a work of science fiction – a forerunner of all that was written by writers of subsequent generations. At the same time, however, it is a novel with vivid characters, strong passions and strong conflicts.

October 27, 1940: Petros will remember this day because his cricket died. He will remember her because the next day he hears his mother's voice saying: “Get up... there has been a war. Can't you hear the sirens?'

When the Italians arrived at Greece's doorstep, Petros was nine years old, had a pet turtle and knew war only through books. But now he experiences it every day, together with his parents, his grandfather and his older sister, Antigone, starting a long walk - a walk in the Athens of the Occupation, in those difficult years of hunger, starvation, fear, of the persecutions, but also of the Resistance to the conquerors.

The emblematic novel by Alki Zei, recreated as a graphic novel by the author Angeliki Darlasi and the comedian Dimitris Mastoros, respecting the atmosphere and spirit of the original. A graphic novel-tribute from the creators of younger generations to a favorite classic book of Greek literature.

Shortly before the war of 1940, somewhere in Marousi, lives with her parents Eleftheria, a ten-year-old girl, whom her twin younger brothers call Letro and when they get angry with her Laveran's Plasmodium. She detests the household and "women's" jobs, while she goes crazy for everything her father disapproves of: She reads books voraciously, looks forward to seeing the theater, sneaks glances at the newspaper, wishes one day to look like Sophocles' Antigone.

On the upper floor of their house, Mr. Marcel, a Frenchman who lives permanently in Greece, has Benoit's nephew under his protection, who becomes the children's inseparable friend. Few of their toys: balls, spins, rope, yo-yoki, a pair of roller skates. Their imaginations are boundless: together they create a thousand and two stories that enchant them too. And how much more would they think of doing if the adults didn't stop them...