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| As clever plotting and dramatic irony build a page-turning momentum, Timoleon engages sympathy even in the midst of his follies
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It is the summer of 1975. An Onassis-like tycoon is nearing the end of his life. When he finds out that his daughter, with whom he’s having a problematic relationship, is pregnant by a man he does not approve of, he has a birthday party for her on his private island, secretly intending to persuade her to end the pregnancy: a doctor is standing by to perform the procedure on the spot. The story starts on the morning of the party before the guests arrive and ends the following day when all the guests are gone. The novel intersperses the events that take place before, during and after the party with flashbacks to the tycoon’s rise to wealth and fame, from his childhood in Asia Minor in the 1920s to old age, via Buenos Aires, New York, London and Paris.
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| Both a serious meditation on masculinity and commercial power…and a rollicking beach-read…fans of Karnezis will not be disappointed. Marco is a huge and splendidly flawed hero for a five-star novel
The Times
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| Karnezis wise fable gestures towards a dawning era, in which vacuous yet powerful celebrity finds its ultimate apotheosis
Guardian
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| Such careful and subtle patterning confirms Karnezis as a novelist of unusual gifts
Financial Times
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| The reader grows to love his detestable characters and this, along with the way he takes the mundane and cranks it up into madness, is the secret of Karnezis’ appeal
Independent on Sunday
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Jonathan Cape • Modern fiction • Previous
ISBN: 0224079328
Publication date: 05/07/2007 • 272 pages • Demy Octavo • EAN: 9780224079327 |
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