Little Infamies - Brossura

Karnezis, Panos

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0099433524 ISBN 13: 9780099433521

Casa editrice: Vintage, 2003

Riassunto

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.

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Recensione:

"Karnezis has captured the spirit of his people and spoken for them in a spellbinding, universal voice" (The Times)

"Karnezis's robust prose, as luminous and flinty as his landscape, sharpens his focus on captive souls in a lonely place" (Independent)

"Strikingly original... The stories in Little Infamies are extraordinary - shocking, colourful and resonant. Panos Karnezis is an entirely individual writer in full command of his material" (Sunday Times)

"A deeply impressive collection of short stories" (Sunday Telegraph)

Descrizione del libro:

'A very fine collection of connected short stories - funny, disturbing, ironic and bloody' - Annie Proulx, Daily Telegraph

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• Editore: Vintage
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0099433524
• ISBN 13: 9780099433521
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 288