The Birthday Party - Brossura

Karnezis, Panos

Brossura

ISBN 10: 009950278X ISBN 13: 9780099502784

Casa editrice: Vintage, 2008

Riassunto

It is the summer of 1975. As dawn breaks on a small private island off the Mediterranean coast, Marco Timoleon, an aging tycoon, wakes up to see the final preparations for his troubled daughter's twenty-fifth birthday party. Having found out that she is pregnant by a man he doesn't approve of, he secretly intends to persuade her to terminate the pregnancy: the family doctor stands by to perform the operation on the spot. But as the day unfolds, his plan is put to the test and comes to an unexpected conclusion.

Su questo libro

Recensione:

"Both a serious meditation on masculinity and commercial power...and a rollicking beach-read...fans of Karnezis will not be disappointed. Marco is a huge and splendidly flawed hero for a five-star novel" (The Times)

"Such careful and subtle patterning confirms Karnezis as a novelist of unusual gifts" (Financial Times)

"Karnezis's wise fable gestures towards a dawning era, in which vacuous yet powerful celebrity finds its ultimate apotheosis" (Guardian)

"In prose as clear as the Mediterranean Sea...this is a richly detailed portrait of a man who could so easily have been sketched as a cartoon villain. It's a story about the power of stories themselves, and the countless ways we can all rewrite our pasts and twist our futures" (Daily Mail)

"The reader grows to love his detestable characters and this, along with the way he takes the mundane and cranks it up into madness, is the secret of Karnezis' appeal" (Independent on Sunday)

Descrizione del libro:

A brilliant modern fairy tale by the highly praised author of Little Infamies and The Maze.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Vintage
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 009950278X
• ISBN 13: 9780099502784
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 272