The Circle

by Manolis

The Circle is a political intrigue story that reflects recent world events and their aftermath. The characters are caught between circumstances of their cultures and politics of the times, players who are not what they portray: naïve and cunning, loyal and duplicitous, sentimental and appetite driven.

The story peers back at the war in Iraq as through an un-typical lens: that of the Iraqi citizen, whose family members were killed, whose property was destroyed, and who turn to their liberator/aggressor for opportunity, in the process getting close enough to witness some of their hosts' own self-destruction.

The Circle is a book attempting to uncover emotional responses to catastrophes that changed the lives of people in an unparalleled way, while it explores the genesis of hatred and its origins.

"This the way of a man against himself when one is in the pangs of hatred."

272 pages, Paperback

First published November 13, 2011

About the author

Manolis (full name Manolis Aligizakis) was born in Kolibari on the Greek island of Crete in 1947. After studying Political Science at Panteion University of Athens he emigrated to Canada in 1973.
He has published three novels and numerous collections of poetry in Greek and in English.
He is the founder of Libros Libertad, an independent publishing company in Canada.