Little Infamies
Panos Karnezis
  • Published: 31 January 2014
  • ISBN: 9781446442302
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 288

Little Infamies

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31 Jan 2014
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1 Jul 2003
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'A very fine collection of connected short stories - funny, disturbing, ironic and bloody' - Annie Proulx, Daily Telegraph

Panos Karnezis' remarkable stories are all set in the same nameless Greek village. His characters are the people who live there - the priest, the barber, 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 forgiving eye, and creates a world where magic invariably loses out to harsh reality, a world at once universal, funny and utterly compelling.
  • Published: 31 January 2014
  • ISBN: 9781446442302
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 288
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About the author

Panos Karnezis

Panos Karnezis was born in Greece in 1967 and moved to England in 1992. He was awarded an MA in Creative Writing by the University of East Anglia. He is the author of a highly praised collection of stories, Little Infamies, and three novels, The Maze, which was shortlisted for the 2004 Whitbread First Novel award, The Birthday Party and The Convent.

Also by Panos Karnezis

The Fugitives
The Convent
The Birthday Party
The Maze
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Praise for Little Infamies

A deeply impressive collection of short stories

Sunday Telegraph

Karnezis has captured the spirit of his people and spoken for them in a spellbinding, universal voice

The Times

Karnezis's robust prose, as luminous and flinty as his landscape, sharpens his focus on captive souls in a lonely place

Independent

Strikingly original... The stories in Little Infamies are extraordinary - shocking, colourful and resonant. Panos Karnezis is an entirely individual writer in full command of his material

Sunday Times