Written in 1920, the work that encompasses the greatest literary movements of its time narrates the adventures of a Portuguese traveler in search of himself, who ends up on an island in the Indian Ocean accompanied by a bizarre and monstrous companion, with the aim of spending the rest of their lives in absolute tranquility and peace away from modern urban civilization. Restorative edition of the 3rd and final edition of 1944. 

The edition is accompanied by an afterword by Stavros Zouboulakis, where the publishing history of the book will be presented. In 1922, the black year of the Asia Minor Catastrophe, one of the refugees crossing over from Ayvalik to Mytilene is Fotis Kontoglou.