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Knopf Canada is proud to welcome an internationally acclaimed, award-winning writer with his brilliant novel that tells the story of one of world’s richest and most infamous tycoons.

As dawn breaks on a small island late in the summer of 1975, a tycoon wakes up to oversee the final preparations for his daughter’s birthday party. Finding out that she is pregnant by someone he does not approve of, he tries to persuade her to end the pregnancy: his private doctor – and oldest friend – is standing by to perform the procedure. Among the other guests is the tycoon’s ambitious biographer. The story intersperses the riveting events that unfold during the day of the party with the tycoon’s rise to wealth and fame, from childhood in Asia Minor to old age, via Buenos Aires, New York, London and Paris, and the attempts of his young biographer to bring his subject’s true personality to light.

The Birthday Party is at once fascinating, revealing and hilarious – a gripping novel that comments upon the art of biography and the invention of a human life.

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“A rollicking read...A serious meditation on masculinity and commercial power in 20th century Greece. Fans of Karnezis’ previous books will not be disappointed. Marco [the main character] is a huge and splendidly flawed hero for a five-star novel, that like all Karnezis’ fictions, reveals many different Greeces. This is for anyone who loves soap operas, Homer, business or biography and confirms Panos as the finest (OK, only) living Greek engineer-turned-writer of English novels in the world.”
The Times (London)

“Fantastically atmospheric and with the anticipation of a surprising denouement interwoven with flashbacks or this extraordinary man’s life, this is a masterpiece.”
Grove

Praise for Panos Karnezis:

“Unless lightning strikes or the earth opens up beneath him, Karnezis seems likely to take his place beside the masters of Eastern European storytelling. . . . The Greek imagination has found a new dark, witty avatar.”
The Independent on Sunday

“Karnezis has captured the spirit of his people and spoken for them in a spellbinding, universal voice.”
The Times (UK)
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Panos Karnezis is the author of the critically acclaimed novels Small Infamies and The Maze. Born in Greece, he moved to England in 1992 to study engineering, and worked in industry before he started to write. He was awarded an M.A. in creative writing by the University of East Anglia. He lives in London.

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  • EditoreKnopf Canada
  • Data di pubblicazione2007
  • ISBN 10 0676978878
  • ISBN 13 9780676978872
  • RilegaturaCopertina rigida
  • Numero di pagine272
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