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Atlantis Books E.E.
Nomikos Conference Centre, Firostefani 847 00
Cliffside bookshop carved into volcanic rock, with a terrace looking out over the caldera and sea.
This guide to Atlantis Books in Santorini traces how two Americans, Craig Walzer and Oliver Wise, washed up on the island in 2002 and decided, over a bottle of wine, to open a bookshop where none existed. It follows the shop's twenty years carved into a cliffside cave in Oia, with a fisherman's boat among the tables and cats asleep between the spines, before the story turns to a crisis in the winter of 2024. A line painted straight onto the shop's wall, in the founders' own words, calls that winter the plainest sentence in the whole story.
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