The Few Things I Know About Glafkos Thrassakis A Novel

"By turns moving and scathingly satirical . . . Vassilikos has been so rarely translated into English; one can only hope this complex, multilayered novel will change that."-Mary Park, The New York Times Book Review A brilliant work of the imagination as well as an inspiring commentary on writing, the story follows a biographer's investigation into the life and works of a famous, yet highly mysterious, deceased Greek writer, Glafkos Thrassakis. At the crossroads where magic realism and political fiction meet, Vassilis Vassilikos's buoyant literary imagination successfully defies narrative structural conventions and common fiction grounds. Vassilis Vassilikos is Greece's most acclaimed novelist. His most famous novel, Z, has been translated into 32 languages.

Born in 1933 in Kavalla in Northern Greece, VASSILIS VASSILIKOS grew up mostly in Salonika. After the military coup in 1967, he spent seven years in exile, returning to Greece in 1974. Author of some 120 books, translated into more than twenty foreign languages, Vassilikos is Greece's formost living novelist. His novel, Z, was adapted for film by Costa Gavras, winning the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 1969.