Akakie

With a golden pound in his pocket and a wise advice, the young Lefteris started from his village in Epirus for Athens. He dreamed of building and creating, of satisfying the hunger of the body and soul of the people.

In the adventure of his life a woman enters his heart, until the war, ruthless and inhuman, tests them. But the writings of life are hard to fool. When Greece wakes up from the lethargy of war, it seizes every opportunity presented before it. He struggles to make his dream come true, without letting anything get in his way.

His hard work becomes a passion and his passion a vision.

Years later, when Akakios is in every Greek house, he looks with awe at the past and what he managed to create. Without forgetting where he started, without forgetting the place where he was born.

Because he knows that it is the roots that make the strongest trees.

Reading this book, you will keep in your memory golden granaries of the Thessalian plain, smells from old food shops and sounds from Epirotic dirge.

A story inspired by the life of Lefteris Mantzikas that comes to move and remind each of us that the essence of life is to remain Human.

(From the back cover of the book)