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Winner of the Gival Press Novel Award. "... a novel with wit and attitude to spare...her debut is a captivating and wild-tongued tale."--Dean Bakopoulos, author of "Please Don't Come Back from the Moon." "Reading this novel is like watching 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding' with commentary by Roseanne Barr."--Thaddeus Rutkowski, author of "Tetched"

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  • Paperback: 180 pages
  • Publisher: Gival Press, LLC (July 21, 2006)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1928589324
  • ISBN-13: 978-1928589327
  • Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 10.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,819,557 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars I just can't help it ., September 22, 2006
By Ruslan Khais (Philadelphia, PA USA) - See all my reviews
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This is a wonderfully polyphonic , flawlessly crafted novel. Robustly written , marvelosly Greek ( with death of innocence as a backdrop ).
For me , personally , if after I finished to read a book , I want to read it again - than it's a great one , it is a Literature . It was like this with Markes's "A hundred years of solitude" and 'Love in the time of cholera". It's was like this with Kundera's "Immortality". It is the case with "Last day of Paradise". I like this book , I just can't help it.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Paradise, October 23, 2006
By Maria Hnaraki "Koralia" (Philadelphia, PA United States) - See all my reviews
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Kiki Deni's book is a solid literary work for scholars of the Mediterranean pride-, honor-, shame-, blood-, kinship-, and gender- notions. It locates the "unbearable lightness of being" in soft touches and promises; heavy consciences and losses. The writer's Edenic wanderings are diachronic: it is only at the end we realize that the last day is, indeed, the first day of paradise.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The new My Fat Greek Wedding, September 25, 2006
Great parallel plots. A very refreshing, original book about relationships given in a humorous way; highly recommend it. Very theatrical, felt I was watching the 'My Fat Greek wedding' all over
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5.0 out of 5 stars The Last Day of Paradise
I absolutely enjoyed reading this book! Once I had started, I couldn't put it down. I loved the humorous, witty and sometimes sarcastic language which Kiki Denis uses to portray... Read more
Published on April 1, 2007 by Konstantina

5.0 out of 5 stars Great writting!
A captivating book that celebrates life with all its joy and conflicts written with sharp, honest humor that has no mercy for petty behavior and social conventions. Read more
Published on October 25, 2006 by Kika

2.0 out of 5 stars not bad for the first book
The language is over-simplified
and repetitive. No sophisticated and/or between-line images.
It gave me a general disappointment about current generation's interests... Read more
Published on October 22, 2006 by Literature lover

5.0 out of 5 stars A very good book!
Apart from the rough language and the funny situations dispersed
in the plot that make the book an easy and entertaining read,
the philosophy and the writer's... Read more
Published on October 18, 2006 by Anna Manoliadou

5.0 out of 5 stars A very cinematic book!
KiKi Denis has the talent to deliver thoughts and ideas in an entertaining way.
The book is philosophical, humorous, and - at times - warm, without being heavy or... Read more
Published on October 18, 2006 by Melina Smirniou

4.0 out of 5 stars The Last Day of Paradise
Strongly hilarious and witty. I had great anecdotal empathy for Kiriaki, since I come from a similarly dysfuctional Greek background. Read more
Published on October 17, 2006 by George Psaltis

5.0 out of 5 stars The Last Day of Paradise
The Last Day of Paradise is a captivating novel by Kiki Denis about a Greek teenage girl from Northern Greece who discovers that her biological father is not the one that raised... Read more
Published on September 22, 2006 by Liana Sideri.

5.0 out of 5 stars I loved this book!
I just finished reading the book and I loved it. The images are laugh out loud funny and the style
is frank and raw in the best possible way. Read more
Published on September 21, 2006 by Jason Jobson

5.0 out of 5 stars lovely!
I started reading it and couldn't stop!
I spent two wonderful days in company with the main character Kyriaki enjoying every minute of her adventures... Read more
Published on September 21, 2006 by B. Antelman

5.0 out of 5 stars a mega treat!
Kiki Denis's first novel is fast-paced, sexy, and does things with language you've never seen before. Read more
Published on September 20, 2006 by NYC Reader

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