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This article offers a close reading -both grammatological and textcantered- of debut author Tasia Veneti's work, in order to demonstrate its historical and aesthetic correlation with the Epirote literary tradition, as well as with Modern Greek prose writing of the 19 th century, with pretensions that far exceed the expectations of a first work. The paper focuses, in particular, on the writer's gendered perspective, with respect to the primacy on her part of the female experience and narrative perspective, which significantly differentiates her work from her contemporary Epirote fellow-writers. The female experience of Epirus, based on the cruelty of lived reality, intrinsically linked to space in its physical, historical, and social dimension, forms in Veneti, as I hope to show, a genderdetermined ethographic, naturalistic and by definition realistic aesthetic, which is its own. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]