The Sleepwalker

Winner of the Prix de meilleur livre tranger/Prize for the best foreign novel, France. At the opening of Margarita Karapanou's stunning second novel, in disgust at mankind God vomits a new Messiah onto the earth. Or rather, onto a Greek island. Populated by villagers, ex-pats, artists, writers, this island is a Tower of Babel, a place where languages and individuals have been assembled, as though in wait for something as horrific and comic as this second coming. The Sleepwalker moves deftly and dizzyingly between genres--satire, murder mystery, magical realism, its own brand of Theater of the Absurd--following Manolis, the new Messiah, as he moves through this place and its characters like a sleepwalker, unaware to the very end of his divine nature. In The Sleepwalker Karapanou has created an unforgettable depiction of a dissolute world, desperately comic and full of compassion, a world in which nightmare and miracle both uneasily reside.

Author: Margarita Karapanou
Publisher: Clockroot Books
Published: 09/01/2010
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.50w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9781566568388
ISBN10: 1566568382
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Satire