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London: Vintage, 2003 Book. Fine. Soft cover. 1st Pbk Edition. Cunning, fantastical tales about a Greek village of the imagination, from a startling new talent. Panos Karnezis's remarkable stories are all set in the same nameless Greek village. His characters are the people who live there - the priest, the whore, the doctor, the seamstress, the mayor and the occasional animal: a centaur, a parrot that recites Homer, a horse called History. Their lives intersect, as lives do in a small place, and they know each other's secrets: the hidden crimes, the mysteries, the little infamies that men commit. Karnezis observes his villagers with a worldly eye, and creates a place where magic invariably loses out to harsh reality, a place full of passion, cruelty, and deep reserves of black humor. Nineteen debut stories reflect daily life in a Greek village over many years. Greece, first of all, is a nation of villages - from the sooty neighborhoods of Athens down to the tiny place ("so poor it…
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Little Infamies: Stories
by Karnezis, Panos
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Little Infamies: Stories
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New York: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux., 2003 Book. As New. Hardcover. 1st US Edition.. Cunning, fantastical tales about a Greek village of the imagination, from a startling new talent. Panos Karnezis's remarkable stories are all set in the same nameless Greek village. His characters are the people who live there - the priest, the whore, the doctor, the seamstress, the mayor and the occasional animal: a centaur, a parrot that recites Homer, a horse called History. Their lives intersect, as lives do in a small place, and they know each other's secrets: the hidden crimes, the mysteries, the little infamies that men commit. Karnezis observes his villagers with a worldly eye, and creates a place where magic invariably loses out to harsh reality, a place full of passion, cruelty, and deep reserves of black humor. Nineteen debut stories reflect daily life in a Greek village over many years. Greece, first of all, is a nation of villages - from the sooty neighborhoods of Athens down to the tiny place…
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The Maze
by Karnezis, Panos
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New York: Picador, 2004 Book. As New. Soft cover. First Pbk.Ed... Set in Anatolia in 1922, The Maze is the story of a retreating Greek brigade that has lost its way. It is pursued by a Turkish army that seeks to avenge three years of Greek occupation. No help is forthcoming. Commanded by a brigadier with a passion for Greek mythology and an addiction to morphia, the brigade's only chance of salvation is to reach the Mediterranean coast and sail home. As the army wanders through the Anatolian desert, their internal divisions become more pronounced and their dementias more florid. Eventually they reach a small town, up until now untouched by the war, which is run by a simple-minded mayor and is peopled by a gallery of wonderfully strange characters. When the soldiers leave at last, a tragedy has taken place and the town has changed forever.
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Pope Joan = Papissa Joanna
by Royidis,Emmanuel [Durrell, Lawrence]
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New York: Overlook Press/Tusk, 1984 Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. Revised Edition. Rollicking story of the only female Pope. First published in 1886, and banned by the Greek Orthodox church. 158p. introduction,notes & bibliography..
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Ten Seconds from Now
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New York: Grove Press / Evergreen, 1957 Book. Near Fine. Original Wraps. First Thus. [An Evergreen Original ] " The sadness, charm and lust of the Mediterranesn . A Greek radio station serves as the background for this story of tragic lives interlocked into complex patterns of love and hate" 224p. Crisp, tight, unmarked copy..
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