Vernacular Dreams

"Loukakis writes in a style that might be described as chromatic realism ...

The stories are very finely crafted indeed."

-Paul Salzman, Australian Book Review

A shopkeeper's son rails at his ailing father. A radio announcer's daughter returns to her country hometown. A trouser salesman joins a small rebellion. And a metaphysical explorer struggles with the nature of islands and their islands ...

These are stories of velodromes and mixed businesses, of cultures old and new, and of ordinary a...