A Bronze Species

Seven islands are in the mercy of conquerors; opportunistic overlords, Venetian dictators, French “reformers” and, even, arrogant British officials who, for half a century, have imposed a menacing hand guised as “protection”; who then, gave the islands to Greece as a bribe for raising George I to the country’s throne. This is the story of a family, traversing time from the Middle Ages through to our days; about two kids that never had the chance to fall in love, falling prey, instead, to chance and sacrifice; about two kids that did fall in love, defying every written path of their lives; a curse that was almost forgotten up until the moment that it was reaffirmed. This is a novel about the years that the lords are building no more people in their underpasses, but they still refuse to acknowledge that the field workers have been rising. A time that balances on the edge of the sword, between a past the rolls away agonizingly slow and a future that comes tumbling down fast. It is a story about a family from Kefalonia, back when Eptanisa were struggling to become one again with Greece; back when city people begin to make decisions of their own and the villagers find out that they’re human as well.