A family saga in which fiction meets ancient Greek tragedy

On March 30, 1960, Maria Callas gave birth to a premature child. The father was Aristotle Onassis. The newborn was pronounced dead in the hours that followed, as a death certificate attests. But what if he had survived? What if Onassis, to prevent the scandal of an illegitimate son, fabricated his baby's death and gave him up for adoption, unbeknownst to the mother?

Thus begins the incredible story of Omero Lengrini. Following the shadows of his illustrious parents from Athens to Rome, from Paris to New York, Omero unravels a family saga woven with lies, manipulation, and deception in a landscape populated by Maria Callas, Aristotle and Christina Onassis, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, and John F. Kennedy, Jr.

Omero’s 40-year journey toward truth and self-discovery is a story about familial relationships, love and abandonment, revenge, cursed dynasties, truth versus darkness, and choice versus destiny.

Christos Markogiannakis signs a breathtaking novel which blurs the frontiers between fiction and reality, and where modern crime fiction meets ancient Greek tragedy.