Loxandra is not merely a biography, nor just a novel. In this captivating text, which became a bestseller from the moment it was first published by Estia editions, real and fictional characters merge to recreate the image of the City before the First World War. Maria Iordanidou wrote the book in 1963, when she was already sixty-six years old, because - she said - she did not want to take with her the few things she knew. Loxandra is the story of her grandmother: through it, Maria Iordanidou brings an entire era back to life, even "now, when all these things have passed and the grass of forgetfulness is already beginning to grow." [Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition]