Read The Clockmaster by Roubina Gouyoumtzian in Greek

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What is The Clockmaster about?

The Clockmaster (Ο συντηρητής) is a book with ten short stories on the theme of humans and time, this incomprehensible friend who can also be a reckless enemy. In one story, a sculptor builds a statue just to destroy it. In another one, man tries to overcome time - eventually just to reveal deeper secrets about himself. In the final story, an eternity is revealed to the reader through the storytelling…

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A Modern Greek book that gives food for thought!

Roubina Gouyoumtzian is a Modern Greek author who is inspired by Michael Ende, Jostein Gaarder and Gabriel Garcia Marquez. In her writings, she uses symbolism and explores the concept of time, humanity, as well as death and its acceptance during or at the end of one's life. Roubina's stories allow the reader to walk on the fine line between surrealism and metaphysical projections of the human mind.

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How was this Greek translation made?

Literal but understandable!

We have translated words in this Modern Greek book one by one and literally. However, there is an exception to this rule: where a literal translation prevents understanding. If it does, we choose understanding. See this:

Παρατήρησα I noticed
το the
ρολόι watch
του. of his.

The more idiomatic translation might have been I noticed his watch but such English wording poses no serious problem to understanding, thus we have chosen a more word-by-word translation. But see here:

Εδώ Here
και and
πολλά many
χρόνια years

In such instances, a literal translation would not make much sense, as this is an expression. Thus we have chosen a more understandable translation:

Εδώ και πολλά χρόνια Many years ago

Accompanied by audio

Specifically for Interlinear Books, the author of the book Roubina Gouyoumtzian recorded a professional reading of the entire text as an audiobook, which we are publishing together with the book.

The audiobook comes as a collection of mp3 audio files, which can be downloaded and played on your digital device.

The stories in the book are saved as separate files in the audiobook, allowing you to listen to the audio retelling of any story at any time.

This book is followed by another collection of stories by Roubina Gouyoumtzian called The Crack on the Hourglass.

This Interlinear book includes:

  • 44 standard-book pages
  • over 5 thousand translated words and expressions
  • original text in a contemporary Modern Greek language & aligned Interlinear translations
  • a separately available Greek-only version of the text to get additional practice after having read the text with the Interlinear translation
  • files in the printable or electronically readable PDF format, as well as MOBI and EPUB format files for Kindles and other e-book readers, tablets, and phones - all immediately available to download
  • a Modern Greek audiobook version recorded by the author herself specifically for Interlinear Books available!

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