Little Infamies
  • Published:
    Feb-2003 (Hardcover)
    2003 (Paperback)
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  • Main Genre:
    General Fiction
  • Pages:
    224
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Cunning, fantastical tales about a Greek village of the imagination, from a startling new talent

Panos Karnezis' remarkable stories are all set in the same nameless Greek village. His characters are the people who live there--the priest, the whore, the doctor, the seamstress, the mayor--and the occasional animal: a centaur, a parrot that recites Homer, a horse called History. Their lives intersect, as lives do in a small place, and they know each other's secrets: the hidden crimes, the mysteries, the little infamies that men commit.

Karnezis observes his villagers with a worldly eye, and creates a place where magic invariably loses out to harsh reality, a place full of passion, cruelty, and deep reserves of black humor. These stories recall the masters of the form--the wit and sophisticated playfulness of Saki and the primal fatalism of Prosper Merimee--but they are utterly original and prove that Karnezis is one of the freshest new voices in English fiction.
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EDITIONS
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    •  
    • May-2003
    • Vintage (UK)
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0099433524
    • ISBN13: 9780099433521
    •  
    • Mar-2004
    • Picador
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0312421540
    • ISBN13: 9780312421540
    • First Edition
    • Feb-2003
    • Farrar, Straus and Giroux
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0374189374
    • ISBN13: 9780374189372
    •  
    • Mar-2004
    • Farrar, Straus and Giroux
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1429923431
    • ISBN13: 9781429923439
    •  
    • Mar-2004
    • Farrar, Straus and Giroux
    • eBook (Kindle)
    •  
    • Mar-2004
    • Vintage
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1446442306
    • ISBN13: 9781446442302



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