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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.

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

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.