This book chronicles the quest of a man named Pavlos as he is attempting
to solve the mystery of the Delphic Epsilon while also coming to terms
with his mother's recent death. After twenty years living and working in
Paris as a newspaper cartoonist, Pavlos returns to his native Greece
with no job and no clear plans for the future, beyond occasionally
checking in on his widowed father. The novel traces his Quixotic
adventures--from his mission to collect words that start with the Greek
letter E to his unsuccessful attempts to find his place within Greek
intellectual and artistic circles--with the author's characteristic
humor and sharp observational eye. At its heart this is a story of
living in-between: between languages, between the past and the present,
between life and death.