We had the honor to welcome Antonis Mylonakis to the Book Club this Friday for a special reading. Antonis will present his newest book, Nine. The musical artist Thodoris Voutsikakis will read from the text.

Nine is a collection of stories that move along the edges of reality and imagination, circling around the deepest questions of human existence. Within its pages we encounter a boy pushed into violent adulthood, a mother who turns her pain into an act of vengeance, a musician who dares to organize a concert for the dead, and a stranger at a funeral who seems to know everyone’s secrets. A miracle demands to be tested, a woman reinvents herself digitally for love, an entire city of the homeless survives in yellow tents, and at the end a cat tells of its unlikely friendship with a dog—an epilogue of tenderness after darkness.

Antonis Mylonakis is the author of novels, short stories, poetry, and children’s books. His debut novel, The Mirror and the Prophecy of Greynorth (2016), won an award the following year, while Hippocampus (Kastaniotis, 2023) was widely praised and shortlisted for the “New Author” Prize of Klepsydra magazine. He also writes the Lily and Alex series for younger readers.

His latest book, Nine (Kastaniotis, 2023), is a bold collection of short stories—praised by critics for its originality and emotional depth.