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Nine years after the death of world-renowned novelist Alexandros Kastrinakis, his first wife breaks her long silence.

She recounts the story of their fifteen-year unconsummated marriage — a union with a man so consumed by spiritual and religious quests that he left her untouched by love.

Spanning from 1883 to 1966 and unfolding across Crete, Athens, Vienna, Berlin, and beyond, her narrative explores not only the emotional void of their marriage but also Kastrinakis’s many other romantic entanglements — and how these shaped his internationally acclaimed, widely translated works, some of which were even adapted for the silver screen in Hollywood.

A powerful historical novel inspired by the life and work of Nikos Kazantzakis — often mirroring them with haunting accuracy.