Informationen zum Autor Panos Karnezis was born in Greece in 1967 and moved to England in 1992. He was awarded an MA in Creative Writing by the University of East Anglia. He is the author of a highly praised collection of stories, Little Infamies , and three novels, The Maze , which was shortlisted for the 2004 Whitbread First Novel award, The Birthday Party and The Convent . Klappentext It is the summer of 1975. As dawn breaks on a small private island off the Mediterranean coast Marco Timoleon an aging tycoon wakes up to see the final preparations for his troubled daughter's twenty-fifth birthday party. Having found out that she is pregnant by a man he doesn't approve of he secretly intends to persuade her to terminate the pregnancy: the family doctor stands by to perform the operation on the spot. But as the day unfolds his plan is put to the test and comes to an unexpected conclusion. Zusammenfassung Having found out that she is pregnant by a man he doesn't approve of, he secretly intends to persuade her to terminate the pregnancy: the family doctor stands by to perform the operation on the spot.

Autorentext
Panos Karnezis was born in Greece in 1967 and moved to England in 1992. He was awarded an MA in Creative Writing by the University of East Anglia. He is the author of a highly praised collection of stories, Little Infamies, and three novels, The Maze, which was shortlisted for the 2004 Whitbread First Novel award, The Birthday Party and The Convent.

Klappentext

It is the summer of 1975. As dawn breaks on a small private island off the Mediterranean coast Marco Timoleon an aging tycoon wakes up to see the final preparations for his troubled daughter's twenty-fifth birthday party. Having found out that she is pregnant by a man he doesn't approve of he secretly intends to persuade her to terminate the pregnancy: the family doctor stands by to perform the operation on the spot. But as the day unfolds his plan is put to the test and comes to an unexpected conclusion.

Zusammenfassung
Having found out that she is pregnant by a man he doesn't approve of, he secretly intends to persuade her to terminate the pregnancy: the family doctor stands by to perform the operation on the spot.