Z
50th Anniversary Edition
- Paperback
416 pages
- Release Date
15 February 2017
Summary
The fiftieth anniversary edition of Vassilikos’s famous banned novel about a political assassination and its aftermath.A progressive parliamentary deputy is scheduled to appear at a political rally. Meanwhile, local political bosses plot his assassination. Thugs are recruited to disrupt the rally. Rumors begin to spread. But the forces already set in motion are irresistible. Z is the story of a crime, a time, a place, and people transformed by events.Z was published in Greece in 1966, and ban…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781609807122 |
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| ISBN-10: | 160980712X |
| Author: | Vassilis Vassilikos, Marilyn Calmann |
| Publisher: | Seven Stories Press,U.S. |
| Imprint: | Seven Stories Press,U.S. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 416 |
| Edition: | 50th |
| Release Date: | 15 February 2017 |
| Weight: | 462g |
| Dimensions: | 32mm x 203mm x 129mm |
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Critics Review
“Shattering validity, exciting reading … Vassilikos’s gifts are dazzling.” –New York Times Book Review
“An admirable book and a rich one that achieves its aim: to throw light on a historical moment of great significance.” –Marguerite Duras
About The Author
Vassilis Vassilikos
Born in 1933 in Kavalla in Northern Greece, VASSILIS VASSILIKOS grew up mostly in Salonika. After the military coup in 1967, he spent seven years in exile, returning to Greece in 1974. Author of some 120 books, translated into more than 20 foreign languages, Vassilikos is Greece’s formost living novelist. His novel Z was adapted for film by Costa Gavras, winning the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 1969.
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