Of Fire and Wilderness

What anguish, what pleasure keeps Manto Mavrogenous crouched above her writing, the fallen noblewoman, the now forgotten “Heroine and Madonna” of Mykonos, the one who put her homeland in the dance of the Revolution of 1821, saved her from the Algerians and spent her huge fortune on the fight?
From night to night – it is the year of 1838 and the king of Bavarian origin ‘Otto- recalls memories and dead, curses old wounds. It tells the story of her life, her struggles, her great and bitter love for Dimitris Ypsilantis. And together, the adventures of the rebellious genus. The outbursts, the heroism, the divine madness. The passions, the betrayals, the interplay. The role of the Great Powers.
The expatriate Akrivi, “the daughter of her heart”, marked with a terrible secret from the time of her slavery in Egypt, is the recipient of the writing. In order not to “forget her bitter roots and how the dream changes the world …”.
(From the back cover of the book)