BOOK THE LAST BLACK CAT

There is no person who has not been moved by reading Harriet Beecher Stowe's immortal work, which has been translated into thirty-seven languages ​​and is the book that, more than any other, contributed to the abolition of slavery in the United States. Barba-Thomas, little Eva, Topsy, Simon Legree, are names that have entered the everyday vocabulary of all the peoples of the world. And the dramatic adventures of black people, whose families are torn apart to be sold here and there, influenced and still influence today the way of thinking and the emotional world of those who believe in freedom and equality.

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...