Red Dyed Hair

In 1989, Kostas Mourselas, an already acclaimed playwright at the time, publishes his first novel and presents to us one of the most extraordinary characters in the Greek literary scene: Emmanouil Retsinas, known as Louis, a charming reincarnation of Zorba in post war Athens, a man who is almost handsome, almost revolutionary, almost a bum, almost an okay guy...Together with Konstantinos Manolopoulos, the low-key intellectual, and Martha, the silent beauty, they are the centre of a tale of three people who live, react, transgress and survive amid the chattering middle classes, «successful» careerists, weary ideologues and sensitive layabouts. A fresco of an era in Greece swamped with brothels, poor neighbourhoods, remnants of lives and borrowed dreams. The confession of a generation that at some point realises «we slept in all the wrong beds, loved the wrong people, made the wrong choices». Provocative, sensual, caustic and exuberant, ”Red Dyed Hair” became a bestseller overnight and a classic, that is read again and again.