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  • Published: 15 February 2017
  • ISBN: 9781609807122
  • Imprint: Seven Stories Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 416
  • RRP: $32.99

Z, 50th Anniversary Edition




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 banned there one year later. It is based on an actual political assassination in 1963 in Salonika. The victim was Gregory Lambrakis, a socialist legislator and outspoken critic of the government. But Lambrakis's killers could not have anticipated the public response. His funeral became a political event; by the time the cortege reached Athens, 400,000 people were following the coffin in silence. In the nation's capital, the letter Z suddenly appeared on walls, sidewalks, posters--everywhere. Z stands for the Greek verb zei, "he lives."

  • Published: 15 February 2017
  • ISBN: 9781609807122
  • Imprint: Seven Stories Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 416
  • RRP: $32.99

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Praise for Z, 50th Anniversary Edition

"Shattering validity, exciting reading . . . Vassilikos' 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

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