A well received collection of stories from a young Greek author, which featured in several 2002 Book of the Year round-ups. "An astonishing and brilliant achievement by an exceptional and unique young writer" Ben Rice. "Has captured the spirit of his people and spoken for them in a spellbinding, universal voice" "The Times". "an entirely individual writer in complete command of his material" "Sunday Times".

Panos Karnezis was born in Greece in 1967 and came to England in 1992. He studied engineering at Oxford and worked in industry before starting to write in English. He studied for an MA in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. He is the author of Little Infamies, a collection of connected short stories set in a nameless Greek village, and two previous novels; The Maze, shortlisted for the 2004 Whitbread First Novel Award and The Birthday Party. Panos Karnezis lives in London.