{"product_id":"9781429923439","title":"Little Infamies: Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCunning, fantastical tales about a Greek village of the imagination, from a startling new talent\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePanos Karnezis' remarkable stories are all set in the same nameless Greek village.  His characters are the people who live there--the priest, the whore, the doctor, the seamstress, the mayor--and the occasional animal: a centaur, a parrot that recites Homer, a horse called History.  Their lives intersect, as lives do in a small place, and they know each other's secrets: the hidden crimes, the mysteries, the little infamies that men commit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKarnezis observes his villagers with a worldly eye, and creates a place where magic invariably loses out to harsh reality, a place full of passion, cruelty, and deep reserves of black humor. These stories recall the masters of the form--the wit and sophisticated playfulness of Saki and the primal fatalism of Prosper Merimee--but they are utterly original and prove that Karnezis is one of the freshest new voices in English fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47153792712944,"sku":"9781429923439","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781429923439_p0.jpg?v=1769901132","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781429923439","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}