News From Nowhere Radical & Community Bookshop

• home
• browse books
• book details:

Stolen Time

by Vangelis Hatziyannidis - £7.99  Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd (2007)
paperback    ISBN 13: 9780714531267 | ISBN 10: 071453126x

Translated from the Greek by Anne-Marie Stanton-Ife.
 
The second novel from the author of Four Walls, again stems from the author’s fascination with the way people act when confined or imprisoned in some way.
 
A young and poverty-stricken student agrees to spend two weeks in a remote hotel with a group of strangers for the equivalent of five month’s rent.
He is interviewed about his beliefs and his past by members of the group, who occasionally mock him but never resort to violence. The discovery of a list of names and dates written on a wardrobe drawer in his room makes the young man curious about previous ‘guests’ of the group. His unease increases when he finds a concealed room and its alarming contents.
 
It is only years later that he is able to look back on what took place in the hotel and begin to piece all the parts of the puzzle together...

..."delightfully blends the serious...themes of imprisonment and solitude with humour, humility, horribly violent deaths, coincidences and miracles - all of which add up to a witty fable, satisfyingly replete with the essential ingredients of magical realism"
(The Guardian)

(Price & availability last checked: June 2018)

Order by email

×

Stolen Time - by Vangelis Hatziyannidis

Please fill in the order form, & we will reply as soon as we can to confirm your order & tell you how long it will take. Choose between collection from our bookshop or mail-order, for which we charge postage at cost, at current Royal Mail rates

Select type of order: Collect & pay in the shop - I live in or can visit Liverpool Mail-order - send me a card payment link Mail-order - I will pay another way & give details in the notes section

Your name:

Please fill out this field.

Your email address

Please check carefully that you have entered your email correctly

Please fill out this field.

Your phone number (required for order as back-up contact method):

Please check carefully that you have entered your phone number correctly.

Please fill out this field.

Notes (optional - for additional message or information about your order):

Close

Enquire about this book

×

Stolen Time

by Vangelis Hatziyannidis

Your name:

Please fill out this field.

Your email address

Please check carefully that you have entered your email correctly

Please fill out this field.

Your phone number (optional):

Your message:

Please fill out this field.

(optional) If you are interested in ordering this book, would your order be for collection or mail-order? Select type of order : Collect from the shop - I live in or can visit Liverpool Mail-order - send by post

Close

In booklists: World Fiction - Europe,
In categories: