- Published: 15 January 2011
- ISBN: 9780099502791
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 224
- RRP: $19.99
The Convent

















- Published: 15 January 2011
- ISBN: 9780099502791
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 224
- RRP: $19.99
Unexpectedly haunting, its details catching like splinters in that part of the imagination that responds to pure storytelling
Times Literary Supplement
Panos Karnezis writes with assurance of a world which must, perforce, be closed to him
Daily Mail
Impressive... We witness justice and injustice, theological controversy, the politics of a tiny enclosed society, despair, cruelty, generosity, scandal, suspicion, and suicide, all told with immense verve and skill
Sunday Times
Written with aplomb and canniness
Ursula K Le Guin, Guardian
This fragrant, fond and faintly otherworldly novel, with its final, poignant twist, is a memorable read
The Lady
The Convent is at once a still, almost silent thing, and a blistering human drama...Karnezis's great skill is in evoking the haunting beauty of lost places and souls... There is a strength and confidence to Karnezis's prose
The Times
An impressive addition to the works of a master storyteller
Independent