Where We Live
The work covers a single day - June 20, 2014 - and in this respect many critics have drawn parallels with James Joyce's Odyssey and Heinrich Böll's Billiards at Half-past Nine. And the epigraph is an excerpt from "Days" by the English poet Philip Larkin: "What are days for? / Days are where we live".
A day in the life of a 35-year-old lawyer from the modern lost generation - with bitter humor and self-irony, against the background of the political and social crisis in Greece, he presents an artful tangle of reminiscences and flashbacks, reflections and insights, wanderings in professional and intimate terms, in search of his true nature. There are difficult relationships with parents, complicated relationships with two women, a case of defrauding a client of a beauty salon and a fatal ending... Twenty-four hours, containing the past days, time as a container of life, because, as Philip Larkin asked himself, where would we live if the days were missing?
This project has been funded with support from the Creative Europe Programme of the European Commission.
Christos Kythreotis
Christos Kythreotis was born in Nicosia in 1979 and grew up in Athens. His first book, the short story collection Μια χαρά (Just Fine, 2014), was awarded with the National Book Award for Debut Book, and was also shortlisted for the Literature Awards of the online magazine Anagnostis (Debut Book) and of the Greek magazine Klepsydra (Young Author).
The novel Εκεί που ζούμε (Where We Live, 2019) is his second book and it was awarded the State Literary Award of Cyprus and the prose award of the magazine Klepsydra, shortlisted for the State Literary Awards of Greece, nominated for the European Literary Award (2020). In 2022, it was filmed by the Greek director Sotiris Goritsas.
