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The Few Things I Know About Glafkos Thrassakis

Vassilis Vassilikos Karen Emmerich

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Seven Stories Press,U.S.
01 August 2011
A brilliant work of the imagination as well as a meditation on writing itself, the story follows a biographer's investigation into the life and works of a famous, yet highly mysterious, deceased Greek author named Glafkos Thrassakis. At the crossroads where magical realism and political fiction meet, Vassilis Vassilikos's buoyant literary imagination flourishes beyond the confines of conventional narrative structures.
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Imprint:   Seven Stories Press,U.S.
Country of Publication:   United States
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Height: 203mm,  Width: 152mm,  Spine: 25mm
Weight:   408g
ISBN:   9781583226544
ISBN 10:   1583226540
Pages:   356
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Vassilis Vassilikos is Greece's most acclaimed novelist. He has published more than ninety books, including novels, short stories, essays, poetry, and plays. His most famous novel, Z, has been translated into thirty-two languages.

Reviews for The Few Things I Know About Glafkos Thrassakis

A deft and witty reflection on writing as well as a moving portrait of the artist as political exile. . . . These passages recall Kundera at his most charmingly discursive. Yet whenever the book seems to be taking a reflective, historical direction, the biographer intrudes with ever more fantastical spy-novel details. . . . By turns moving and scathingly satirical . . . Vassilikos has been too rarely translated into English; one can only hope this complex, multilayered novel will change that. -Mary Park, New York Times Book Review


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