Z [Paperback]

Vassilis Vassilikos (Author), Marilyn Calmann (Translator)

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

The assassination of "Z," a leftist delegate to Greece's Parliament, sparks an exploration into the lives of the hired killers, bourgeois witnesses and political figures behind the killing. "A novel of inflamed and lunatic political passions, it is informed by the author's despairing knowledge of his countrymen and their national fate, and it has its basis in an actual case," said PW .
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Language Notes

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Greek

Product Details

• Paperback: 406 pages
• Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Pr (May 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0941423506
• ISBN-13: 978-0941423502
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.2 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,112,492 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars True history, not a comic book, August 20, 2008

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Ken who reads "Dedalusian" (Santa Cruz, CA.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Z (Paperback)

This Historic novel is on the same level as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's 'Gulag Archipeligo'. It is not a comic book structured to please our sense of mystery. It is a careful reenactment of what happened in Greece and a careful analysis of the underlying cause. It took courage to write this book. The author was under indictment in Greece and his book was banned for one year. It is a challenge to keep Democracy alive even in the home of it's birth. If you are an intellectual light weight, stay away. The Hulk will appeal more to your taste.

3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Book, December 29, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Z (Paperback)

Good translation from the original Greek. "Z" is about a political assasination in Greece in 1966. Excellent read!

3 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars UGH! WHAT DID I GET MYSELF INTO?, October 20, 2003

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Daniel Vullo "BRAIN CANDYMAN" (Weehawken, Nj United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Z (Paperback)

Well, I don't know quite how to put it, but Z. was not what I expected. I expected to read a novel about the assassination of a Greek leftist and the mystery of finding the perpetrators through an investigation. Well what I got was a terrible take on the above mentioned, the thugs who carried out the assassination read like they were doing a 3 stooges skit. The plan was awful and sloppy; mind you it was a true story, but the author left nothing to our surprise, it would have been better if he were to tell the story where we do not know the killers and the reporter finds it out as we move along. That way he can still carry out the history and social economic conditions that plagued post World War II Greece while telling a good story. I'm sorry If I offend any fans of the book, but this was not what I expected, I still want to see the film version to see how it translated, but the author here told a factual story while at the same time going off on tangents about the mindsets of the people. Put simply it was boring.