Thanos Kalamidas - Novel

https://theoviebooks.wordpress.com/ That night, Nils sat in his cramped apartment, staring at the stack of unpaid bills on the coffee table. The radiator clanked and hissed in the corner, barely keeping the chill away. His ex-wife’s voice echoed in his head: “You’re just too... predictable, Nils. Life with you is like eating plain porridge every day.” He ran a hand through his thinning hair and sighed. The TV, still stuck on some mindless cooking show, droned in the background. He wasn’t even watching it. His eyes drifted to an old wooden box on the shelf, something he hadn’t opened in years. Curiosity mixed with the desperation for distraction. He pulled it down, dusted it off, and flipped it open. Inside was a collection of odds and ends: a faded photograph of his grandfather, an old compass, and a rolled-up piece of parchment. Thanos Kalamidas, a multipublished writer, cartoonist and illustrator; born and grew up in a picturesque neighbourhood on the mountainside of Hymettus in Athens, Greece. Then his life took him to Berlin, Germany and to London, UK for studies. After a brief stay in Yorkshire he moved his life to Paris, France while working in Tokyo, Japan and in Cape Town, South Africa. In the last 25 years he became a permanent Scandinavian resident and recently, in his glorious sixth decade, he moved to a scenic village in the Växjö area. Ovi eBook Publishing 2024