« Dimitris Stefanakis polishes the setting and the costumes, opening one by one the gates of an elegant and cosmopolitan city. His Days of Alexandria takes the reader also to Paris, Cairo and Munich [...]. A fictional fresco impossible to put down : Stefanakis uplifing book is an incontestable success of its genre. »
Days of Alexandria
Dimitris STEFANÀKIS (ENG)
Foreign rights : Egypt (The National Center for translation) - Spain (Lumen)
Yvette, the young French woman who has just arrived in Alexandria through mysterious circumstances, has an affair with Antonis Haramis, the absolute master of the tobacco industry. However, Elias Khouri is a "Lebanese" man with shady activities whose presence beside the young man allows us to foresee the subterranean developments : the young man is essential to anyone who wishes to do business with the standing forces.