Kassandra and the Wolf

Margarita Karapanou's Kassandra and the Wolf was first published in 1974, and went on to become a contemporary classic in Greece, receive international acclaim, and establish its 28-year-old author as an intensely original new talent, who garnered comparisons to Proust and Schulz.

Six-year-old Kassandra is given a doll: "I put her to sleep in her box, but first I cut off her legs and arms so she'd fit," she tells us, "Later, I cut her head off too, so she wouldn't be so heavy. Now I love her very much." Kassandra is an unforgettable narrator, a perfect, brutal guide to childhood as we've never seen it--a journey that passes through the looking glass but finds the darkest corners of the real world.

This edition brings Kassandra and the Wolf back into print--a tour de force and, as Karapanou liked to call it, a scary monster of a book.

Author: Margarita Karapanou
Publisher: Clockroot Books
Published: 04/30/2024
Pages: 132
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 7.72h x 5.43w x 0.24d
ISBN13: 9781623716974
ISBN10: 1623716977
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | World Literature | Greece
- Fiction | Coming of Age