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Armed with little more than an empty shotgun and plenty of bravado, the three blow their big chance: a hold-up at a district tax office.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTheir Technicolor dream comes unraveled on a furious motorcycle ride north, in a comic brawl on a deserted beach, and in the final ignominy of capture under the flashing lights of a provincial disco.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLife, suggests The Cicadas, is as tough, nasty and indifferent as a B thriller. Vangelis Raptopoulos' characters, sketched with sure-handed empathy, with a knife-edged ear for the hard humor of the street, throb with the fervid intensity of cicadas buzzing in the noonday heat. Nothing in their voice intimated how soon they will die.\u003cbr\u003e","image":"http://www.biblionet.gr/images/covers/b9450.jpg","isbn":"960-04-1224-3","isbn13":"978-960-04-1224-6","ismn":null,"issn":null,"series":{"id":895,"name":"Modern Greek Writers","books_count":37,"tsearch_vector":"'greek' 'modern' 'writers'","created_at":"2017-04-13T00:57:20.275+03:00","updated_at":"2017-04-13T00:57:20.275+03:00"},"pages":172,"publication_year":1996,"publication_place":"Αθήνα","price":"7.0","price_updated_at":"2010-07-28","cover_type":"Μαλακό εξώφυλλο","availability":"Κυκλοφορεί","format":"Βιβλίο","original_language":null,"original_title":"Τα τζιτζίκια","publisher_id":10,"extra":null,"biblionet_id":9450,"url":"https://bibliography.gr/books/the-cicadas.json"},{"id":9057,"title":"Her Night on Red","subtitle":null,"description":null,"image":"http://www.biblionet.gr/images/covers/b9447.jpg","isbn":"960-04-1188-3","isbn13":"978-960-04-1188-1","ismn":null,"issn":null,"series":{"id":895,"name":"Modern Greek Writers","books_count":37,"tsearch_vector":"'greek' 'modern' 'writers'","created_at":"2017-04-13T00:57:20.275+03:00","updated_at":"2017-04-13T00:57:20.275+03:00"},"pages":118,"publication_year":1996,"publication_place":"Αθήνα","price":"7.0","price_updated_at":"2010-07-28","cover_type":"Μαλακό εξώφυλλο","availability":"Κυκλοφορεί","format":"Βιβλίο","original_language":null,"original_title":"Μια νύχτα με την κόκκινη","publisher_id":10,"extra":null,"biblionet_id":9447,"url":"https://bibliography.gr/books/her-night-on-red.json"},{"id":9059,"title":"Mission Box","subtitle":null,"description":null,"image":"http://www.biblionet.gr/images/covers/b9449.jpg","isbn":"960-04-1183-2","isbn13":"978-960-04-1183-6","ismn":null,"issn":null,"series":{"id":895,"name":"Modern Greek Writers","books_count":37,"tsearch_vector":"'greek' 'modern' 'writers'","created_at":"2017-04-13T00:57:20.275+03:00","updated_at":"2017-04-13T00:57:20.275+03:00"},"pages":346,"publication_year":1996,"publication_place":"Αθήνα","price":"14.0","price_updated_at":"2010-07-28","cover_type":"Μαλακό εξώφυλλο","availability":"Κυκλοφορεί","format":"Βιβλίο","original_language":null,"original_title":"Το κιβώτιο","publisher_id":10,"extra":null,"biblionet_id":9449,"url":"https://bibliography.gr/books/mission-box.json"},{"id":9062,"title":"The Old Curiosity Shop","subtitle":null,"description":"A story of the passion between a man of fifty \"plus\" and a girl of nineteen, a seemingly not unusual situation were it not for the fact that everything that takes place between the two \"protagonists* is constantly and faithfully recorded by someone: the mature \"grey\" woman who is the man's past and who chronicles the lovers' passion with adoration and respect. The place is Salonica, the Old Curiosity Shop, Africa and the prevailing element is Passion, destructive, merciless, rapacious, without inhibitions and \"objections\" until the End. This End which is their life in a state of decay and which moment by moment passes through the eyes of the \"grey woman\", a road parallet to that of city life and so very solitary. Their real find is not some sort of fate that awaits them or an ordinary death; it is not catastrophe or a normal ending for a newspaper story.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDaring, harsh, rough and at the same time intensely erotic, Costoula Mitropoulou's book is yet another deep incision into the enernal problem of human relations and of the Passion that ends only with our own end.","image":"http://www.biblionet.gr/images/covers/b9452.jpg","isbn":"960-04-1189-1","isbn13":"978-960-04-1189-8","ismn":null,"issn":null,"series":{"id":895,"name":"Modern Greek Writers","books_count":37,"tsearch_vector":"'greek' 'modern' 'writers'","created_at":"2017-04-13T00:57:20.275+03:00","updated_at":"2017-04-13T00:57:20.275+03:00"},"pages":81,"publication_year":1996,"publication_place":"Αθήνα","price":"7.0","price_updated_at":"2010-07-28","cover_type":"Μαλακό εξώφυλλο","availability":"Κυκλοφορεί","format":"Βιβλίο","original_language":null,"original_title":"Το παλαιοπωλείο στην Τσιμισκή","publisher_id":10,"extra":null,"biblionet_id":9452,"url":"https://bibliography.gr/books/the-old-curiosity-shop.json"},{"id":9097,"title":"Two Thrillers","subtitle":null,"description":"Newlyweds arrive at an old hotel where they are to spend their honeymoon. But someone is conspiring against their life and their happiness. Death lies in wait at every turn. The hotel is occupied only by the newlyweds, the elderly owners and their strange son. Just how will this all end? Will the newlyweds escape the clutches of the crazed killer and fulfill the rosy expectations of their life?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA man sentenced to life is released from prison and immediately hired as a servant by an extemely rich woman; he settles in her mansion but with misgivings. This enormous place is haunted by shadows and ghosts, mystery and threat. Two opposing worlds are poised on the verge of all-out conflict. In the end, who will be the victimizer and who the victim?","image":"http://www.biblionet.gr/images/covers/b9487.jpg","isbn":"960-04-1197-2","isbn13":"978-960-04-1197-3","ismn":null,"issn":null,"series":{"id":895,"name":"Modern Greek Writers","books_count":37,"tsearch_vector":"'greek' 'modern' 'writers'","created_at":"2017-04-13T00:57:20.275+03:00","updated_at":"2017-04-13T00:57:20.275+03:00"},"pages":123,"publication_year":1996,"publication_place":"Αθήνα","price":"7.0","price_updated_at":"2010-07-28","cover_type":"Μαλακό εξώφυλλο","availability":"Κυκλοφορεί","format":"Βιβλίο","original_language":null,"original_title":null,"publisher_id":10,"extra":null,"biblionet_id":9487,"url":"https://bibliography.gr/books/two-thrillers.json"},{"id":9061,"title":"The Emptiness Beyond","subtitle":null,"description":"Two friends trapped in adolescence.\u003cbr\u003eTheir first encounter with Woman and the supernatural.\u003cbr\u003eConstant reassessment of values and a heroine\u003cbr\u003eout of Lewis Carroll.\u003cbr\u003eArrangements to meet at night at her parents' house.\u003cbr\u003eReading Albert Camus and caviar-parties for four.\u003cbr\u003eThe Dawn Spirits and the fugitive abbot.\u003cbr\u003eAn apparition from Hell.\u003cbr\u003eThe golden decade of the 1970s and the nymphomaniac chimera.\u003cbr\u003eLong live virgins!\u003cbr\u003eIn order words, a very tender love story.\u003cbr\u003eOr,\u003cbr\u003eThe Emptiness Beyond","image":"http://www.biblionet.gr/images/covers/b9451.jpg","isbn":"960-04-1209-X","isbn13":"978-960-04-1209-3","ismn":null,"issn":null,"series":{"id":895,"name":"Modern Greek Writers","books_count":37,"tsearch_vector":"'greek' 'modern' 'writers'","created_at":"2017-04-13T00:57:20.275+03:00","updated_at":"2017-04-13T00:57:20.275+03:00"},"pages":161,"publication_year":1996,"publication_place":"Αθήνα","price":"7.0","price_updated_at":"2010-07-28","cover_type":"Μαλακό εξώφυλλο","availability":"Κυκλοφορεί","format":"Βιβλίο","original_language":null,"original_title":"Ο τρόμος του κενού","publisher_id":10,"extra":null,"biblionet_id":9451,"url":"https://bibliography.gr/books/the-emptiness-beyond.json"}]