Greek Town

The Greek town serves as the novel’s central setting, embodying memory, nostalgia, and the act of revisiting the past. Teresa’s two visits, separated by nine years, allow the town to function as both a physical space and a mental landscape, where familiar streets, buildings, and people are similar but altered. It is a site for reflection, encounters, and confrontation with unresolved emotions. The town’s continuity and change mirror Teresa’s own internal shifts, emphasizing the tension between the desire to recapture past experiences and the impossibility of fully doing so.

Hotel

The hotel functions as a private, contemplative space within the Greek town, a site where Teresa engages with memory and reflection. It is where she writes in and rereads her notebooks, revisiting the events of her first trip while living through the second. The hotel also mediates her connection to the outside world...