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Contents:, Mar 13 2004
By Judy Smith "judylynnsbooks" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Z (Paperback)
This novel, published in Greece in 1966, was banned there one year later. It is easy to understand why. Four years ago the letter "Z" suddenly appeared everywhere in Athens...on walls, sidewalks, posters, even government bulletins.
"Z" stands for the Greek verb zei which means "he lives". "He" being Gregory Lambrakis, the socialist deputy who was assassinated in 1963 in Salonika when he came there to address a pacifist meeting. In eliminating a critic of the government, his assassins created more trouble than they bargained for. His funeral became a political event; by the time the cortege reached Athens, 400,000 people were following the coffin in silence.
Novel based on true historical events.
Translated into English by Marilyn Vassilikos.