The Birthday Party - Hardcover

Karnezis, Panos

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0224079328 ISBN 13: 9780224079327

Publisher: Jonathan Cape, 2007

Synopsis

It is the summer of 1975. An Onassis-like tycoon is nearing the end of his life. When he finds out that his daughter, with whom he’s having a problematic relationship, is pregnant by a man he does not approve of, he has a birthday party for her on his private island, secretly intending to persuade her to end the pregnancy: a doctor is standing by to perform the procedure on the spot. The story starts on the morning of the party before the guests arrive and ends the following day when all the guests are gone. The novel intersperses the events that take place before, during and after the party with flashbacks to the tycoon’s rise to wealth and fame, from his childhood in Asia Minor in the 1920s to old age, via Buenos Aires, New York, London and Paris.

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Review:

`A wicked humour is never far from the surface'. -- The Herald

`Elegantly written book....The Birthday Party is a considerable achievement'. -- Ham and High

`The Birthday Party tells a compelling story'. -- TLS

'A wicked humour is never far from the surface ... The reader is invited to strap themselves in and enjoy the ride.' -- Martin Greig, The Herald

'A wonderfully gifted storyteller...Karnezis has created an
entirely believable character. To say what happens will ruin the night;
just be sure you refasten the seatbelt.' -- Literary Review

'Polished and poised'
-- Sunday Telegraph

'this engaging novel confirms Panos Karnezis's standing at the
forefront of European fiction'
-- Waterstone's Books Quarterly

`Clever plotting and dramatic irony build a page-turning
momentum'
--Guardian Weekend Review

`This engaging novel confirms Panos Karnezis's standing at the forefront of European fiction.'
--Waterstone's Books Quarterly

`sophisticated, solidly realised and pleasurably involving'
--Sunday Times

About this edition

• Publisher: Jonathan Cape
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0224079328
• ISBN 13: 9780224079327
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272