Little Infamies: Stories - Softcover

Karnezis, Panos

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312421540 ISBN 13: 9780312421540

Verlag: Picador, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Karnezis Panos

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"Downright miraculous...spry and playful, sly and macabre...Karnezis's language is fresh, lyrical, natural... seduc[ing] you into its magically real and soon-to-be-spectral world." --The New York Times Book Review

"A deft stylist: clear and direct, yet subtly ironic...Like many of the masters of this genre--Guy de Maupassant, Flannery O'Connor, Eudora Welty--Karnezis is adept at delivering one startling surprise after another." --Los Angeles Times

"Fierce, twisted, darkly funny stories...[Karnezis] has a sharp, unsentimental eye for contemporary Greek life, while deftly adding intimations of the pagan past." --The New Yorker

"Sly, witty, fantastical, and tragic, with just a touch of something old-fashioned about them...A terrific read." --The Seattle Times

"What a find!...The fruit of an exceptional and leaping imagination...One searches for comparisons--what one might get if Kafka collaborated with Hal Hartley, Aesop, and Italo Calvino--but Karnezis's originality and freshness, his vivid turns of phrase, are his alone." --Annie Proulx

Reseña del editor

In a collection of interconnected stories set in a small Greek village, such characters as the local priest, prostitute, doctor, centaur, and parrot experience passion, humor, and the loss of magic in the face of harsh reality. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

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• Verlag: Picador
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0312421540
• ISBN 13: 9780312421540
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 292