Zorba the Greek - Nikos Kazantzakis

Zorba the Greek

By: Nikos Kazantzakis

Paperback | 1 December 2008 | Edition Number 1

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The original work of inspirational fiction, a delightful tale which has changed the lives of generations of readers.

Set before the start of the First World War, this moving fable sees a young English writer set out to Crete to claim a small inheritance. But when he arrives, he meets Alexis Zorba, a middle-aged Greek man with a zest for life.

Zorba has had a family and many lovers, has fought in the Balkan wars, has lived and loved - he is a simple but deep man who lives every moment fully and without shame. As their friendship develops, the Englishman is gradually won over, transformed and inspired along with the reader.

This is a book which you will return to again and again. Zorba's zest for life is irresistible.

Author Biography: Nikos Kazantzakis was born in 1883 in Herakleion on the island of Crete. His remarkable travels began in 1907 and there were few countries in Europe or Asia that he didn't visit. He studied Buddhism in Vienna and later belonged to a group of radical intellectuals in Berlin, where he began his great epic The Odyssey, which he completed in 1938. He didn't start writing novels until he was almost 60 and completed his most famous work, Zorba the Greek, in 1946. Other novels include Freedom and Death (1953) and The Last Temptation (1954), which the Vatican placed on the Index. Return to Greco, an autobiographical novel, was published in 1961. Nikos Kazantzakis finally settled in Antibes with his second wife, where he died in 1957 from leukaemia. His tomb stone reads: 'I hope for nothing. I fear for nothing. I am free.'

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