Another committee is appointed in our country and meets regularly for months, with its members talking endlessly and clashing without ever reaching a conclusion. When summer arrives, the committee’s work is moved to a Cycladic island, where it is tested in practice. The romantic struggles of those involved in the project turn out to be far more compelling than their professional disagreements.
Maria Mavrikaki was born in 1964 in Peristeri, Greece, to parents from Piraeus with island roots.
She has extensive experience in environmental protection and sustainable development, as well as in finance and healthcare unit management.
She has also written chronicle essays, short stories, and one novella.
Perastika is her first novel.
The committee members may differ in appearance, yet inwardly they are unexpectedly alike. They feel pain, fall in love, and get hurt in the same way, forgetting that everything in life is temporary. Two parallel narratives, two distinct voices — one calm and restrained, the other passionate — recount the absurdities of power structures and the unbreakable bureaucracy of the Greek public sector, as well as the overwhelming force of love, especially when it remains unfulfilled.