The Maze

Proof copy. 8vo. 364pp. Illustrated wraps.

The debut novel by the author of the short story collection Little Infamies. Shortlisted for the 2004 Whitbread First Novel Award. A lost Greek brigade in retreat from the advancing Turkish army unwittingly re-enacts Xenophon's 'Anabasis' at the tail-end of the Greek campaign in Asia Minor following World War I.

Composing his books in his adoptive language, English, Karnezis subsequently refashions them into his mother tongue in a process of re-appropriation. He holds an M.A. in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia. "The Maze succeeds because it imagines so exactingly the hope, struggle and eventual futility of its characters' lives [and] shows a truly talented writer finding his way into more expansive regions." –Sam Thompson, Times Literary Supplement