And a Wake-Up - Pavlos Pamborides;Despina Pirketti

A young soldier stands watch on a divided island and begins to hear a voice rising from somewhere within.

At first, he dismisses it as exhaustion-another long night guarding a line that has not moved in decades. But the voice persists.

It speaks of buried crimes and unfinished wars. Of men who called themselves patriots and returned as heroes, leaving something hidden beneath the carob trees. Of women whose bodies became the battlefield.

Unable to silence it, Nicholas abandons his post. His flight carries him from deserted guard posts to a mountain monastery, from sun-scorched coastlines to the raw nerve of a past that will not remain silent.

On this island, history lies just beneath the surface. The Green Line is less a ceasefire than an open scar.

Shortlisted for the National Prize for Literature (2020)

And a Wake-Up is a searing novella about inherited memory, silenced crimes, and the violence passed from father to son-from one generation to the next. Moving between realism and allegory, it explores the hidden continuities between nation, religion, and masculinity, asking what it means to come of age inside a history that refuses to stay silent.