Ghost Flight
What Readers Are Saying
'Crafted to perfection and endlessly readable . . . a writer whose career we should all be watching with a keen eye'
'Hauntingly poignant . . . Ghost Flight got under my skin and broke my heart in the way that only well-told stories can do'
‘Spellbinding . . . Another wonderful read about complex relationships from Eva Asprakis'
August, 2005.
High-school sweethearts Aristos and Agathi, and Petros and Melina, are the best of friends, until Aristos declares that he is leaving Cyprus for university.
Seven years later, Aristos returns with his new girlfriend, Wendy, to find Petros and Melina engaged, and Agathi still hung up on him.
As the estranged friends become reacquainted, their worlds come apart. All of them have wrongs to right, but with Cyprus hurtling towards the worst aviation disaster in its history, they might have less time than they think.
Thirty-Eight Days of Rain
Winner of the Ink Book Prize for Fiction 2024
A NetGalley Book of the Month. An IndieReader Approved and Best Reviewed Book.. A Reedsy Discovery Featured Recommendation. A NoMo Book Club Pick.
'A sad but uplifting novel about a young couple's immigration struggles and love for their cultural heritage . . . Eva Asprakis is a gifted writer, and Thirty-Eight Days of Rain deserves attention for its focus on the problems of young-adult émigrés'
- Alicia Rudnicki, IndieReader
"What matters more, your place as a daughter or as a mother?”
Androulla is twenty-four and newly married when she learns that she is infertile. In a bid for Cypriot citizenship she is undergoing adoption by her stepfather, and wondering if she will have to adopt a child one day herself.
As this reality sets in, Androulla’s marriage unravels. Between migration departments and doctors’ appointments, she must question what it means to be from somewhere, what it means to be a woman and, when an impossible choice presents itself, which of those things means the most to her.
Love and Only Water
What Readers Are Saying
'Love and Only Water takes readers on a profound journey . . . from familiarity to uncertainty, from introspection to revelation'
'Asprakis's prose vividly portrays the divided cityscape . . . a resonant narrative that speaks to the universal longing for connection and belonging'
'A beautifully human story, as complex as the history of the land in which it is set . . . Love and Only Water is an essential read'
Can you be whole when your world is in halves?
In the midst of an identity crisis, twenty-one-year-old Daniela retraces her roots to Cyprus. As whispers resound through her grandparents' home, she senses their anguish at Turkey's invasion of The North, still as raw as it was almost fifty years ago. Then her aunt invites her across the border for a picnic.
Beyond the buffer zone she runs into Beyza, who was her girlfriend five years ago when they both lived in London and were from 'the east'. Here and now, with Daniela in The South and Beyza in The North, everything is different.
Faith conflict. Perceptions collide. The divided island unravels alongside a war-fractured family. Daniela's is a story of living with uncertainty, and of forging an identity as both yet neither.