Long Island, NY -- (SBWIRE) -- 09/16/2014 -- It is a day burned into the minds of South Africans. Tuesday September 6th, 1966, the day that the man known as the "Architect of Apartheid" was stabbed to death before the House of Assembly in Cape Town. This shocking assassination forms the explosive backdrop of a stunning first novel from an author to watch:

Gergeos Constantin Awgernøs.

With ‘Eugenia’, Awgernøs has created a work of staggering complexity and breadth of emotion. Readers won’t be surprised to learn that it took over a quarter of a century for Ge?rgeos Constantin Awgernøs to gather the information needed for the novel – even traveling across the world to ensure that the locales mentioned throughout the text are accurate and finely detailed.

“It is a true labor of love and self-evolution,” says Awgernøs, who is not a native English speaker but chose to write the novel entirely in English instead of employing a translator. “Writing the book felt like a journey but on a grander scale. It took me – and will take readers – back in time, to the wilds of Rhodesia (present Zimbabwe), the racial and social tensions of South Africa during Apartheid and the chaos of the Weimar Berlin and wartime Europe.”

‘EUGENIA’ is set to attract attention from both the Liberal media and important figures in social justice for its treatment of issues like racism, LGBTQ rights and discrimination against women and the quest for a better world. However, despite its historical underpinnings, ‘EUGENIA’, at its core, is a story about relationships, love and lust, inner conflicts, and the fear to face our dark, often self-destructive side of our psyche.

Official Synopsis:

It was 2:15 p.m., Tuesday, September 6, 1966, when the prime minister of the South African Republic made his entry to the House of Assembly to deliver a speech of utmost urgency regarding national security. Moments after he took the podium, a man dressed in a messenger’s uniform approached him, pulled a dagger out of his jacket, and assassinated one of the most controversial political figures of the 20th Century.

Eugenia Corais—known as Jenny—is a brilliant intellectual who aspires to transform her Columbia University activism into a media crusade. After Jenny’s path crosses with Dietrich Neuendorf, a handsome and charismatic German civil liberties attorney who is haunted by a secret family past, they quickly fall in love. Meanwhile, eight thousand miles away, in Southern Africa, uncompromising Rhodesian white settlers have just broken away from the British Commonwealth and are surrounded by hostile and bellicose Africans who demand immediate independence. When Dietrich is offered a job to investigate human rights violations in Rhodesia, he proposes to Jenny. Together, they begin a dangerous journey in a police state at the brink of a civil war. When Jenny meets an armaments manufacturer, an unscrupulous man of immense power and a shady colonial military background, she will discover an intricate political backstage but she will also come across a dark side she never knew existed: hers.

Set against a historical canvas that spans from the Cabaret Berlin and wartime Europe to the Columbia University campus of the Sixties and racially torn Rhodesia and South Africa, “EUGENIA, 850 Days” is the dramatic tale of three outstanding personas, tested by fateful coincidences, social beliefs, moral conflicts, and most of all, love.

Since writing the novel, Gergeos Constantin Awgernøs has been overwhelmed by the response from early readers.

“It’s been illuminating and emotional to see how affected people have been by the experience of meeting Eugenia and seeing the world through her eyes. I’ve been told that the novel is like a “Book of Quotes” as it is so transcendent in its themes and messages.”

About Gergeos Constantin Awgernøs
While the author is keeping his mouth sealed about the possibility of a sequel, he is very open about his dream endorsers. “Oprah, Ellen DeGeneres, the Clinton Foundation Initiative, George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Alexander Payne, Oliver Hirschbiegel, Charlize Theron who is South African and could associate herself with the regional history, Arianna Huffington,” he says with a twinkle in his eye. “Arianna particularly is Greek like me and better yet, she understands the plight of humans across the globe and the historical context. Anyone with an eye to end suffering and to shed light on the importance of unity and tolerance and love – that would make me very happy to see that person holding ‘EUGENIA’ in their hands.”

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