For me, this somewhat forgotten novel by Oriana Fallaci, was an amazing journey into the depths of the Greek soul and an insightful observation of what a non-Greek feels when interacting with what constitutes modern Greece.

This half-biography describes the story of two real people: Oriana Fallaci herself, an unconventional journalist, in love with a crazy Greek man – Alexandros Panagoulis, extremely Greek in his Greekness, a hero who led Hellada from the regime of the colonels to a modern, again democratic state.
And with all this, a remarkable love story.

“The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways – I to die, and you to live. Which is better only the god knows” – Plato.