“Tiflomiga” is a greek book written by Evgenia Fakinou. I think it is also a TV series. I’ve also read “Astradeni” by the same author, but thankfully I was too young to remember.

Here’s my descriptions of the book to my partner:

I just finished one of the cringiest books I’ve ever read

So bad, that they made it into a TV series some years ago

It’s a chick flick

Probably set back the feminist movement in Greece by at least 30 years

It’s so cringe, like oh my god

There’s this beautiful charismatic gorgeous painter and two women are in love with him, his wife and her best friend and they all live in the same house

But he’s also self destructive and cheats oh no

But they forgive him always because that’s his nature and they love him blindly and bla bla bla

“I can fix him”

And then another woman appears that is as narcissistic as him and they have the most awkward holidays with friends in the history of the universe until they eventually have sex

And then the wife runs away and talks to a crazy old cat lady and a prostitute

And she is so judgemental about the prostitute, like oh god

The prostitute is probably legit the only character in the book not saying sth cancellable

That’s including the narrator btw, just to make that extra clear

And the wife treats her like an alien

And then she goes home and she’s angry and she drinks with her best friend

And they tell the guy she went to another place and he goes there and then he returns

And they all drink together and what will we make for dinner oh I missed pasta THE END

Like what???

50 pages of cringy flirting and you run out of ink on that particular page?

Legit there isn’t even a closing sentence

Not horny vibes either

This shit’s surreal

This is like if the damned poets wrote for the Catholic church

If they all consented to this relationship from the start honestly it’d be great, good for them

Like, in the Marquise de Sade’s Justine this poor woman has brutal sex with 5 guys BUT SHE STILL CONSENTED FIRST AT LEAST

And the descriptions in the book is like if you asked ChatGPT to write an encyclopedia about the world but use only terms that sound from the village

To sound “authentic”

Some random character that grew up in a village: “I was thinking about Cape Verde which is anything than green, a barren dark wasteland tortured by the winds and the sea”

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Thankfully I skipped through some parts at least

Like at some point a cheated husband has like a 3 page monologue with his wife WHILE SHE’S ASLEEP

There’s like 2 periods on the entire page

The painter has a drunk sequence which is just artistic sounding gibberish for 5 pages

But like, he can’t keep a thought going for more than 2 words