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University of East Anglia.
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The Convent: A Novel
( "An impressive addition to the works of a master storyt...)
"An impressive addition to the works of a master storyteller."―The Independent The crumbling convent of Our Lady of Mercy stands alone in an uninhabited part of the Spanish sierra, hidden on a hill among dense forest. Its inhabitants are devoted to God, to solitude and silence―six women cut off from a world they've chosen to leave behind. This all changes on the day that Mother Superior Maria Ines discovers a suitcase punctured with air holes at the entrance to the retreat: a baby, abandoned to its fate. Is it a miracle? Soon she will find that the baby's arrival has consequences beyond her imagining, and that even in her carefully protected sanctuary she is unable to keep the world, or her past, at bay. In this beautifully told novel, "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" (London Sunday Times).
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Panos Karnezis'sthe Convent: A Novel Hardcover(2010)
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Little Infamies: Stories by Panos Karnezis (2004-03-01)
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Will be shipped from US. Brand new copy.
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Little Infamies
(Panos Karnezis' remarkable stories are all set in the sam...)
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.
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Panos Karnezis
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Born in Greece in 1967, he moved to England in 1992 to study Engineering. He was later awarded a Master of Arts in Creative Writing by the University of East Anglia. His first collection of stories, Little Infamies, was published in 2002.
In 2004 he published The Maze (to some critical acclaim), a novel set during the Greco-Turkish War of 1919-1922.
His latest novel is The Convent, published by West.W. Norton in 2010, and he is also the author of The Birthday Party (2007). Karnezis originally comes from the western part of Greece Elis (regional unit) part of the Peloponnese peninsula.
He lives in London.
Works
book
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Little Infamies
(Panos Karnezis' remarkable stories are all set in the sam...)
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The Convent: A Novel
( "An impressive addition to the works of a master storyt...)
-
Little Infamies: Stories by Panos Karnezis (2004-03-01)
(Will be shipped from US. Brand new copy.)
- Little Infamies
- Panos Karnezis'sthe Convent: A Novel Hardcover(2010)
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Little Infamies
