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From: The Washington Post
Date: 20040502
Author:Reviewed by Nicholas Gage

THE MAZE

By Panos Karnezis. Farrar Straus Giroux. 364 pp. $24

Panos Karnezis made a literary splash last year with Little Infamies, a collection of absorbing short stories set in a contemporary Greek village. The unsentimental and unsettling portraits of rural Greek life, drawn with a sharp eye for the telling detail, inspired comparisons to some of the most accomplished writers of the last two centuries, including Guy de Maupassant, Franz Kafka and Italo Calvino. But the work also raised the question of whether Karnezis was capable of writing only short fiction and not up to producing a ...

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