Z
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Tears along folds of jacket - otherwise fine.
A single letter becomes the rallying cry of a nation in Vassilis Vassilikos's electrifying political novel Z, a work that reads like a thriller but carries the full moral weight of historical truth. Based on the real-life assassination of Greek democratic politician Grigoris Lambrakis in 1963, the narrative chronicles the murder of a leftist deputy, the subsequent cover-up orchestrated by right-wing military factions, and the dogged judicial investigation that threatens to unravel the Greek state itself. Vassilikos masterfully reconstructs the event through multiple perspectives — victim, witnesses, assassins, and investigators — building a mosaic of corruption, violence, and institutional complicity that crackles with urgency and moral outrage. Z stands as one of the defining political novels of the twentieth century, a landmark of committed literature that influenced an entire generation of writers and filmmakers — most famously Costa-Gavras, whose 1969 film adaptation brought the story to global audiences. Vassilikos writes with the precision of a journalist and the passion of a poet, wielding his prose as both indictment and elegy. In Greek, Z means he lives — a defiant inscription that transforms a political assassination into an act of perpetual resistance, leaving the reader to ask: in the face of state-sanctioned tyranny, what does it truly mean to survive?
Author: Vassilis Vassilikos
Format: Hardback
Published: 1968, Macdonald, London
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Tears along folds of jacket - otherwise fine.
A single letter becomes the rallying cry of a nation in Vassilis Vassilikos's electrifying political novel Z, a work that reads like a thriller but carries the full moral weight of historical truth. Based on the real-life assassination of Greek democratic politician Grigoris Lambrakis in 1963, the narrative chronicles the murder of a leftist deputy, the subsequent cover-up orchestrated by right-wing military factions, and the dogged judicial investigation that threatens to unravel the Greek state itself. Vassilikos masterfully reconstructs the event through multiple perspectives — victim, witnesses, assassins, and investigators — building a mosaic of corruption, violence, and institutional complicity that crackles with urgency and moral outrage. Z stands as one of the defining political novels of the twentieth century, a landmark of committed literature that influenced an entire generation of writers and filmmakers — most famously Costa-Gavras, whose 1969 film adaptation brought the story to global audiences. Vassilikos writes with the precision of a journalist and the passion of a poet, wielding his prose as both indictment and elegy. In Greek, Z means he lives — a defiant inscription that transforms a political assassination into an act of perpetual resistance, leaving the reader to ask: in the face of state-sanctioned tyranny, what does it truly mean to survive?