Le tre ossessioni di Kassianos il bottegaio

In an attempt to be accepted by the society of his island, Kassianos the shopkeeper must come to terms with his three obsessions: poverty, loneliness and the procreation of a child in order to guarantee a life beyond life and secure his heritage. In a Cyprus dominated by English colonization and marked by the coexistence between Muslim Turks and Orthodox Greeks, the parable of Kassianos from childhood to death stands out vividly with the strength of the great characters of European realist literature, up to the tragic conclusion. With The Three Obsessions of Kassianos the Shopkeeper, Nikos Nikolaidis, the greatest contemporary Cypriot writer and one of the most important authors in the Greek language of the twentieth century, presents himself for the first time to the Italian reader with the disconcerting charm of an artistic researcher capable of plumbing the more inaccessible abysses of a man psychologically marked by economic, emotional, spiritual and sexual deprivation, who launches a scream of pain of extraordinary aesthetic and symbolic power.