- Taschenbuch: 288 Seiten
- Verlag: Picador; Auflage: Picador. (März 2004)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0312421540
- ISBN-13: 978-0312421540
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 20,6 x 14 x 1,9 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 5.0 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (1 Kundenrezension)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 919.959 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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Set in a backwater Greek village where a broken engagement can end in murder, the stories in Karnezis's debut collection are richly ironic antimorality tales. The characters are miscreants and dreamers: a priest so desperate to win the faith of his congregation that he stages a religious hoax; a doctor with hidden aspirations and a barkeep who knows all of the town's secrets. "Funeral of Stones" recounts the tale of mistreated twins whose father blames them for their mother's gruesome death in childbirth. They run away and plot a brilliant revenge against their father, infecting him with a deadly disease. What they don't reckon on is a miraculous antidote-antibiotics. In "Another Day on Pegasus," a bus driver nearly plows his vehicle into a rocky gulch, distracted by lustful fantasies about one of his passengers. In "Medical Ethics," the aging village doctor finishes a gynecological exam ("his mind was all that time occupied with the answers to the crossword he had left unfinished") only to be surprised by an impromptu marriage proposal from his virginal teenage patient. What's best about Karnezis's stories is not their sly plot twists or colorful portraits of village life (though these are good) but the deadpan conversations and monologues, alive with the author's subversive wit. The village doctor politely inquires about the teenager's stepfather. She politely answers, "He's still suffering from constipation. He says the medicines you've given him do him no good, and one of these days he's going to kill you."
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Cruelty, humiliation, and ugly secrets, laced with thin threads of kindness, form the substance of life in the imaginary Greek island on which Karnezis sets the stories in his debut collection. The stories, unfolding in a post-World War II society on the verge of melting into modern culture, are equally dark and funny. The humor, which ranges from subtle to farcical, is never played just for laughs. In the most broadly comic of the stories, "Jeremiad," a man dies quietly while waiting his turn at the state pensions office. His death goes undetected by the others in the room, each too absorbed in his or her own drama to notice he died, even after the silent stranger begins to putrefy. The final sentence of the story works on one level as a punch line, on another as a poignant comment on aging and mortality. Throughout the collection, magic realism leaves fingerprints on the brutally authentic surface of the stories. Although Greek is the author's first language, Karnezis wields English seductively and with devastating skill. Karen Holt
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These strikingly original short stories are set in a small village in Greece, "so poor it doesn't have a name". They are extraordinary: shocking, colourful, amusing, resonant and sometimes tragic. Although Panos Karnezis writes in his second language, his style is fresh and lyrical and he has enriched and subverted English making it into a delight to read. He has created unforgettable characters and has cast a sharp eye on contemporary Greece. He is a master of the genre, like James Joyce, Raymond Carver or Guy de Maupassant.
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