The Birthday Party - Softcover

Karnezis, Panos

Softcover

ISBN 10: 009950278X ISBN 13: 9780099502784

Publisher: Vintage, 2008

Synopsis

Paperback. Pub Date: 2008 07 Pages: 272 in Publisher: Vintage Books USA It is On the summer of 1975. Marco Timoleon. An Onassis-like tycoon is nearing the end of his life when he finds out his troubled daughter is pregnant by a man he doesn't approve of. he throws a birthday party for her on his private island. secretly intending to persuade her to terminate the pregnancy. A doctor stands by to perform the operation on the spot. The story of this fateful party and the lives it affects is a illiant modern fable. a rags-to-riches tale with no certainty of a happily-ever-after ending.

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Product Description:

It is the summer of 1975. As dawn breaks on a small private island off the Mediterranean coast, Marco Timoleon, an aging tycoon, wakes up to see the final preparations for his troubled daughter's twenty-fifth birthday party. Having found out that she is pregnant by a man he doesn't approve of, he secretly intends to persuade her to terminate the pregnancy: the family doctor stands by to perform the operation on the spot. But as the day unfolds, his plan is put to the test and comes to an unexpected conclusion.

Review:

"Both a serious meditation on masculinity and commercial power...and a rollicking beach-read...fans of Karnezis will not be disappointed. Marco is a huge and splendidly flawed hero for a five-star novel" (The Times)

"Such careful and subtle patterning confirms Karnezis as a novelist of unusual gifts" (Financial Times)

"Karnezis's wise fable gestures towards a dawning era, in which vacuous yet powerful celebrity finds its ultimate apotheosis" (Guardian)

"In prose as clear as the Mediterranean Sea...this is a richly detailed portrait of a man who could so easily have been sketched as a cartoon villain. It's a story about the power of stories themselves, and the countless ways we can all rewrite our pasts and twist our futures" (Daily Mail)

"The reader grows to love his detestable characters and this, along with the way he takes the mundane and cranks it up into madness, is the secret of Karnezis' appeal" (Independent on Sunday)

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 009950278X
• ISBN 13: 9780099502784
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272