{"product_id":"2026200012748-secondhand-z","title":"Z","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Wear and tear with damage\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Tears along folds of jacket - otherwise fine. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA 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.\n\nZ 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?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49130987061467,"sku":"2026200012748-SECONDHAND","price":50.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/f6388ed4-2b36-48c1-b5cd-833e4451f8bc.png?v=1786593675","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200012748-secondhand-z","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}