Panos Karnezis

• Feb-2003
• / General Fiction
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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 parro...

• Mar-2004
• / General Fiction
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Anatolia, 1922. Pursued by a Turkish army after three years of Greek occupation, a retreating Greek brigade has lost its way. Commanded by a brigadier with a passion for Greek mythology and a secret addiction to morphine, the brigade's only chance of...

• Aug-2007
• / General Fiction
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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 th...

• Nov-2010
• / Literary
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The crumbling convent of Our Lady of Mercy stands alone in an uninhabited part of the Spanish sierra, hidden on a hill among dense forest. Its inhabitants are devoted to God, to solitude and silence -- six women cut off from a world they've chosen to...

• Sep-2019
• / Literary
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From the heart-in-mouth opening scene to its melancholy ending, We are Made of Earth is a skilled blend of seductive linguistic simplicity and luminous moral depth. In Karnezis' confident hands, a timely story of refugee arrival on a foreign shore --...

• Sep-2021
• / Christian
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