Fifteen years after his monumental biography of Velouchiotis, titled "Aris, the leader of the irregulars," which has spectacularly surpassed every sales record in its genre, Dionysis Charitopoulos returns with his new novel to another great love of his: Piraeus.

Charitopoulos, a native of the city, novelistically presents the human geography of Piraeus during the period 1947-1967 and captures the soul of the great port, the identity of each neighborhood and district, the characters of the known and unknown protagonists of the city, the everyday people, all those who marked its history.

As he confesses in the book's preface, "in Piraeus I set foot on solid ground" with all that it implies, while on the back cover the author meaningfully notes: "You can see and do everything in Piraeus, everything except one thing, act tough." The book uniquely conveys characteristic images of Piraeus, mainly through the eyes of the book's hero, "the child," and reveals the author's intense personal experiences as well as extensive archival research, thanks to which the reader will find little-known or even unknown information and events.

"From Piraeus," as the title goes, aspires to become a reference book for the great port and to be loved by all Greeks, as it captures in Charitopoulos' unique way one of the most significant periods of modern Greek history.