Της ελιάς το δάκρυ [The Olive's Tears]

The story of the young boy with the peculiar name of Olive’s Tears is based on a popular folktale from theisland of Samos, which is vividly brought to life by Diatsenta Parissi’s imaginative illustrations. The story concerns the adventuresome quests of a boy with wondrous strength, who charmed both elements of nature and mythical beings, such as the dragons that accompanied him wherever he went. The popular identification of a person with an olive tree obviously functions as a symbol representing the omnipotence and propagation of olive oil and olives in the traditional societies of the Mediterranean.