ΝΟΣΟΚΟΜΕΙΟ ΣΩΤΗΡΙΑ

“Sotiria Hospital” by Panagiotis S. Chatzimoys iadis is a fragmented and deeply moving Greek literary novel about illness, memory, grief and the scars left by history.

Moses Panagiotidis, a bookseller and writer, is hospitalized in Sotiria Hospital, where he records memories, reflections, documents and fictional fragments in an attempt to confront mortality and preserve meaning through writing.

As personal trauma intertwines with the history of the hospital itself, the novel explores some of the darkest chapters of modern Greek history — from the isolation of tuberculosis patients to wartime resistance and political executions.

A planned book about poet Maria Polydouri gradually dissolves into a broader meditation on literature, fatherhood, loss and the persistence of memory against oblivion.

Poetic, intellectually rich and emotionally devastating, “Sotiria Hospital” is a powerful contemporary Greek novel that blurs the boundaries between fiction, memoir and historical testimony.