Little Infamies

Informationen zum Autor Panos Karnezis was born in Greece in 1967 and came to England in 1992. He studied engineering at Oxford and worked in industry before starting to write in English. He studied for an MA in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. He is the author of Little Infamies , a collection of connected short stories set in a nameless Greek village, and two previous novels; The Maze , shortlisted for the 2004 Whitbread First Novel Award and The Birthday Party . Panos Karnezis lives in London. Klappentext A well received collection of stories from a young Greek author, which featured in several 2002 Book of the Year round-ups. "An astonishing and brilliant achievement by an exceptional and unique young writer" Ben Rice. "Has captured the spirit of his people and spoken for them in a spellbinding, universal voice" "The Times". "an entirely individual writer in complete command of his material" "Sunday Times". Zusammenfassung 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.

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

Product details

• Authors: Panos Karnezis, Karnezis Panos
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.05.2003
• EAN: 9780099433521
• ISBN: 978-0-09-943352-1
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 18 mm
• Series: Vintage Pbk; Vintage Pbk
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Short Stories (single author), Greece, Modern and contemporary fiction, Modern and contemporary Fiction (post 1945), Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary