The Birthday Party
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It is the summer of 1975. As dawn breaks on a small private island off the Mediterranean coast, Marco Timoleon, an aging tycoon, wakes up to see the final preparations for his troubled daughter’s twenty-fifth birthday party. Having found out that she is pregnant by a man he doesn’t approve of, he secretly intends to persuade her to terminate the pregnancy: the family doctor stands by to perform the operation on the spot. But as the day unfolds, his plan is put to the test and comes to an unexpected conclusion.

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Weight 0.192 kg
Dimensions 1.7 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm
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Format

Paperback
Language

Pages

272
Publisher

Year Published

2008-7-3
Imprint

Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom
ISBN 10

009950278X
About The Author

Panos Karnezis was born in Greece in 1967 and came to England in 1992. He studied engineering at Oxford and worked in industry before starting to write in English. He studied for an MA in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. His first book, Little Infamies (2002) is a collection of connected short stories set in a nameless Greek village, and his second book, The Maze (2004) is a novel set in Anatolia in 1922. It was shortlisted for the 2004 Whitbread First Novel Award. Panos Karnezis lives in London.

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
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Such careful and subtle patterning confirms Karnezis as a novelist of unusual gifts

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