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| The Maze confirms Karnezis as an original and important literary voice.
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Little Infamies was one of the great successes of 2002: a collection of extraordinary stories that gained rapturous reviews and very strong sales. Now Panos Karnezis brings us a fully revised version of his first novel, The Maze, a book that propelled him to the very first rank of young writers.
Set in Anatolia in 1922, The Maze is the story of a retreating Greek brigade that has lost its way. It is pursued by a Turkish army that seeks to avenge three years of Greek occupation. No help is forthcoming. Commanded by a brigadier with a passion for Greek mythology and an addiction to morphia, the brigade's only chance of salvation is to reach the Mediterranean coast and sail home. As the army wanders through the Anatolian desert, their internal divisions become more pronounced and their dementias more florid. Eventually they reach a small town, up until now untouched by the war, which is run by a simple-minded mayor and is peopled by a gallery of wonderfully strange characters. When the soldiers leave at last, a tragedy has taken place and the town has changed forever.
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| Karnezis seems likely to take his place beside the masters of European storytelling.
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| Worthy of Graham Greene. [The Maze is] an outlandish, ingeniously constructed novel as powerful and full of surprises as any ancient myth.
Sunday Telegraph
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Vintage • General & literary fiction • Previous
ISBN: 0099513293
Publication date: 05/07/2007 • 208 pages • B format • EAN: 9780099513292 |
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