| The Sleepwalker Contributor(s): Karapanou, Margarita (Author) |
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ISBN: 1566568382 ISBN-13: 9781566568388 Publisher: Clockroot Books OUR PRICE: $14.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Satire |
| Dewey: 889.334 |
| LCCN: 2010023539 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.5" W x 7.7" (0.60 lbs) 288 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Winner of the Prix de meilleur livre tranger/Prize for the best foreign novel, France. At the opening of Margarita Karapanou's stunning second novel, in disgust at mankind God vomits a new Messiah onto the earth. Or rather, onto a Greek island. Populated by villagers, ex-pats, artists, writers, this island is a Tower of Babel, a place where languages and individuals have been assembled, as though in wait for something as horrific and comic as this second coming. The Sleepwalker moves deftly and dizzyingly between genres--satire, murder mystery, magical realism, its own brand of Theater of the Absurd--following Manolis, the new Messiah, as he moves through this place and its characters like a sleepwalker, unaware to the very end of his divine nature. In The Sleepwalker Karapanou has created an unforgettable depiction of a dissolute world, desperately comic and full of compassion, a world in which nightmare and miracle both uneasily reside. |