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Title: Little Infamies: Stories by Panos Karnezis ISBN: 0-374-18937-4 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: 19 February, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Wonderful short stories
Comment: These strikingly original short stories are set in a small village in Greece, "so poor it doesn't have a name". They are extraordinary: shocking, colourful, amusing, resonant and sometimes tragic. Although Panos Karnezis writes in his second language, his style is fresh and lyrical and he has enriched and subverted English making it into a delight to read. He has created unforgettable characters and has cast a sharp eye on contemporary Greece. He is a master of the genre, like James Joyce, Raymond Carver or Guy de Maupassant.
Rating: 5
Summary: Hard Life
Comment: No slacker, Karnezeis packs 19 stories into this small, 281-page book. The stories are set in a Greek village in the 1950's. Although it contains less than 40 houses, and thus is about to be deprived of official existence, it contains an amazing assortment of personalities, from spinster to prostitute, from priest to thief to pimp. Each has his own hopes and fears. All must cope with an earthquake, a drought and the obliteration of the village by a new dam and reservoir. As many authors, Karnezeis has trouble with endings, sometimes leaving the reader to guess at them and sometimes lacking credibility. Not a native speaker of English, the author muffs a few idioms, as when a character stands on her heels to reach an object overhead. Nevertheless, the work is fascinating and absorbing.
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Title: The Maze by Panos Karnezis ISBN: 0374204802 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: 15 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: The Few Things I Know About Glafkos Thrassakis by Vasiles Vasilikos, Karen Emmerich ISBN: 1583225277 Publisher: Seven Stories Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: How to Breathe Underwater: Stories by JULIE ORRINGER ISBN: 1400041112 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 02 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $21.00 |
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Title: Brick Lane: A Novel by Monica Ali ISBN: 0743243307 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 09 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: The Point of Return : a novel by Siddhartha Deb ISBN: 0060501510 Publisher: Ecco Pub. Date: 04 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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