Wonderful World

Philippos Mandilaras

Isbn:

978-960-16-6702-7

Age Group:

15-25 years

Category:

YA Fiction

Number of pages:

320

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Wonderful World ENG (extended summary)

"Wonderful World" is the world of thirteen teenagers living in a deprived neighbourhood near the centre of Athens. The reader follows twenty-three hours of their lives the last day of their school year. In the evening of that day they are organizing a big farewell party for leaving the Gymnasium.

The party will be held at the school premises and it is obviously the event of the year where everyone is longing to be - each one for its own reason. But a series of unfortunate events and a gang of petty thieves threaten to spoil everything.

The narration is through monologues of the heroes, in a staccato, raw and daring style. The teenagers are not masked or censored. They're honest, straightforward and strict both with others and with themselves. Inside the maze of their conflicting thoughts, they try to find their place in the school microcosm, in their families but also in the big world that surrounds them. They fight to heal their wounds and move ahead. It's adulthood, in short.

“A Wonderful World” is Philippos Mandilara’s first novel after four years of silence. In it, he attempts to capture the essence of today’s adolescents in a multiracial, rundown neighbourhood in the centre of Athens.

AUTHOR

Philippos Mandilaras

Philippos Mandilaras was born in Athens, in 1965. He has been working on children’s and young adult books since 1997 as a writer, a translator, an editor, and a professional reader. He has written many books for younger and older children, one fantasy novel (Niki or what appears and what is), a short story collection for young people (Bananafish) and three contemporary novels for young adults that comprise “The Street trilogy” (Somewhere to Belong, Hyenas, The Elevator Life). For this last one he has been awarded with the State Prize for Young Adult Fiction 2012. He lives in Chios, across the Asian shores.

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