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Life goes on without you and me
Μια προσέγγιση στην ποιητική συλλογή Δυτικά της λήθης του Μπάμπη Αναγιωτού
ISBN: 978-9925-646-24-1

Είδος: Βιβλίο
Μορφή: Χαρτόδετο
Αναγνωστικό Κοινό: Ενήλικες - βιβλία προς το ευρύ κοινό
Θέμα: autofiction, colonial inheritance, contemporary literary fiction, depression, Dhekelia, displacement, identity, literary fiction, lyrical fiction, masculinity, Matthew Phillip Long, memory, mother loss, mourning, novella, poetic prose, Κύπρος, Νουβέλα (μικρές ιστορίες)
Γλώσσα: Αγγλική
Έτος Έκδοσης: 2026
Εκδότης: Αρμίδα
Διαστάσεις: 14 x 21 εκ
Σελίδες: 102 σελ.

Τιμή Εκδότη: 12,00 

Τιμή E-shop: 10,80 
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Περιγραφή
After the death of his mother, Matthew returns to Cyprus, the island of his birth, for the first time in thirty years. Born in Dhekelia to a British family and raised in Britain, he arrives carrying a grief he cannot contain and a longing for a home he has never truly known.

Addressing Cyprus as both witness and beloved, Matthew journeys through Larnaca, Nicosia, Fig Tree Bay, Dhekelia, Varosha, Kyrenia, and Bellapais, searching for meaning in a landscape shaped by memory, empire, partition, displacement, and ghosts. As personal bereavement becomes entwined with national history, he is forced to confront painful questions of identity, masculinity, colonial inheritance, depression, and the fragile hope of beginning again.

Haunting, poetic, and emotionally intimate, Life Goes On Without You and Me is a work of contemporary literary fiction about mourning, belonging, and the lives we try to build from what remains. It is a story of a son grieving his mother, a man searching for home, and a country that becomes both mirror and witness to his sorrow.

Life Goes On Without You and Me is a quiet, lyrical meditation on grief, memory, and belonging, exploring how the landscapes we inherit shape the lives we continue after loss.

A thoughtful and reflective work for readers drawn to intimate explorations of grief, place, and memory.

For readers of reflective literary fiction, grief memoir-inspired fiction, postcolonial writing, and novels with historical elements about Cyprus, memory, loss, and emotional survival.