'Dina Amanatides is a prolific writer whose literary works have spanned for over 60 years, encapsulating a variety of themes written in different genres, short stories, theatrical plays, haiku, poetry and scattered thoughts or aphorisms. Dina first published the Greek version of Human Characters, Ανθρώπινοι Χαρακτήρες, in 1997, 21 years ago. How timely, her work has come of age and seen the light of day, once again, this time in the English language.' (Introduction)