Description: A brilliant work of the imagination as well as a commentary on writing, this novel follows a biographer's investigation into the life of a mysterious deceased Greek writer, Glafkos Thrassakis. Told from the biographer's point of view, the book explores the identification of the fictive with the real and leaves the narrator questioning his subject's very existence.
Review Quotes: "A deft and witty reflection on writing as well as a moving portrait of the artist as political exile. . . . These passages recall Kundera at his most charmingly discursive. Yet whenever the book seems to be taking a reflective, historical direction, the biographer intrudes with ever more fantastical spy-novel details. . . . By turns moving and scathingly satirical . . . Vassilikos has been too rarely translated into English; one can only hope this complex, multilayered novel will change that." -Mary Park, New York Times Book Review