Panos Karnezis' remarkable stories are all set in the same nameless Greek village. His characters are the people who live there - the priest, the barber, 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 forgiving eye, and creates a world where magic invariably loses out to harsh reality, a world at once universal, funny and utterly compelling.
| ISBN: | 9780099433521 |
| Publication date: | 1st May 2003 |
| Author: | Panos Karnezis |
| Publisher: | Vintage an imprint of Random House |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 278 pages |
| Genres: |
Shorter Reads Modern and Contemporary Fiction |