"We live in a gigantic novel. The writer's duty is to invent reality".
J. G. Ballard

An attempted rape, a revolver, a story of revenge, and a death. A writer who is inspired to create his most ambitious work before leaving "Neogreece" in disgust. And along with it, the portrait of a family, proving that the country remains a class-based Russian salad. Shipowners and media moguls, models and fitness trainers, nightclub bouncers and journalists, idle upper-class women and middle-class housewives. A novel that combines detective plot with socio-political satire, and reflection with erotic literature. A mural of Greece at the threshold of the 21st century.

One of the most ambitious novels by Vangelis Raptopoulos, "The Invention of Reality" - a mural of Greece at the threshold of the 21st century -, seven years after its first publication, is released by Kedros Publications in a renewed edition, enriched with an afterword by Alexis Ziras.