ITHAKA
By Mich Vraa
Last night I dreamed about Death. She was sitting three tables away from me, eating a Greek salad…
AUTHOR ALEX HARPER is rich, famous, and free to do whatever he wants. He just doesn’t want to do much. He has lost the woman he loves, and he has nothing left to say. Then he receives an invitation from his father, whom he hasn’t seen in forty-eight years. It’s his last chance to find out why his father disappeared without a trace one summer day in 1974.
Weeks on the Greek islands blur together under the fierce sun, the heat shimmering above glittering water. In tavernas thick with the smell of grilled fish and honeyed wine, he keeps encountering a woman whose gaze suggests she knows far more about his father’s past than she admits.
A NOVEL ABOUT love and betrayal, about life and death and immortality, and about the fascination of a three-thousand-year-old mystery.
ABOUT THE BOOK
First published by Lindhardt og Ringhof, Denmark 2025
RIGHTS SOLD
Denmark, Lindhardt og Ringhof
REVIEWS
“Turn off your phone and read this book in one sitting. (…) Mich Vraa has once again demonstrated his talent as a writer. And we are taken on a journey that covers the whole spectrum, from earthquakes and drinks at the tavern to masculine midlife crises.”
– Five star review in Kristeligt Dagblad
“Excellent storytelling … clever and entertaining (…) There is psychological weight in Mich Vraa’s excellent story about a man who, on a small Greek island where death comes suddenly, is given a new chapter of life.”
– Five Star review in Politiken
“Ithaka is a Greek memento mori comedy that is so wonderful that Berlingske’s reviewer is on the verge of buying a one-way ticket to Greece.”
– Berlingske
“Ithaka is Mich Vraa’s intoxicating new novel (…) about life’s big and small mysteries, about love and betrayal, and the fascination of a three-thousand-year-old mystery.”
– bog.dk
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