Slaves to Gods and Demons #1006358

In the shadow of Olympus, where the old gods still whisper and Christian saints exact their price, a boy named Morfeos comes of age amid the ruins of postwar Greece.

In the mountain town of Micropolis, life is measured in omens, blackbirds on rooftops, and the slow death of a beloved brother. Faith and superstition collide with poverty, civil-war hatreds, and the iron hand of the 1967 dictatorship. Pagan myths of Pan and the nymphs mingle with Orthodox icons; priests, rebels, military officers, and local strongmen all claim the souls of the living. As friends vanish into island prisons and family secrets surface like blood in water, Morfeos discovers that the greatest demons often wear the faces of those he loves most.

Torn between loyalty and conscience, he carries the weight of silence into exile across the Atlantic. Years later in New York, letters from the old country reopen wounds of love, guilt, and unfinished justice, forcing a reckoning with the gods and demons that still rule the human heart.
Slaves to Gods and Demons is a sweeping, lyrical novel of faith and disillusionment, of a people caught between myth and modernity, and of one man’s struggle to escape the chains of history while remaining forever bound to the land that shaped him.