Saints and Demons

Fiction and reality are interwoven in the tapestry of the city from 1808 until 1831. Daily life, love, strong friendships, riches, poverty, visionaries, street gangs, drug addicts, dervishes, Janissaries • renegade, crypto, superstition, love spells, lost dreams, women of the dark side of moon • fires, bazaars, Vegera, taverns of 1000 m, the terrible prison bathroom, the dungeon and police Patriarchate; common schools, the Great School, mistresses Patriarchs, lesbians, perfumes, mud, torture, plague • prerevolutionary period Phanariots, conspiracies , secret societies, traitors, bigotry, massacres in Constantinople in 1821 • Greeks, Ottomans, Armenians, Franks and Jews. And even Sea, Chios, Dragatsani, manic, Alexandria.

Desire, fear, mobs, saints and demons.

An epic novel that sends the reader thru an adventurous life of his heroes, its atmosphere, its torrential language, emotion, reflection, funny situations and vivid representation of the time.

748 pages. First edition: 40.000 copies. By Giannis Kalpoulzos (writer of "Imaret", best-seller)

ISBN: 978-960-501-159-8