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Rating:  Summary: A Freedom Fighter, Lover, & Martyr ... Review: did the author write fact or fiction? Written from the perspectiove of personal experience one is left wondering ... did Oriana Fallaci *actually* know a person on whose life the novel is based? The story is about Alekos, a Greek patriot and political prisoner. It is written after the military rule in Greece (which occured in the mid-1970s). This is a gripping, powerful novel about a man who has solid convictions and beliefs. It shows you the strength and vulnerablilites of *one* individual who is caught in the midst of political changes, a man who remained true to his cause. He fought and loved on his terms. The literary technique, of a memoir is highly effective, the emotions and events depicted are *even* more penetrating and mysterious ... this is one novel I could not put down. Although first read in the mid-1980s it still has me spell-bound. I have recently reread it and the effect is still the same! Erika B.
Rating:  Summary: The most powerful and moving book I have ever read. Review: Having been recommended this book by a friend some time ago I have recently read it. I now wish I had read it long ago. The book is not just of interest to those who are interested in Greece, or Greek politics, but to all of us who are interested in life, and love and hatred. A summary of the book would not do it justice, it is about a Man, his life, his passions, his crimes and his cruel punishment,but more importantly about the woman who fell in love with him and wrote this book for all to read. This book simply has to be read, no book collection should be without its own copy.
Rating:  Summary: "Ideas are the real bombs." Review: I read this book years ago and never forgot the line above: "Ideas are the real bombs."This one idea makes the book worthwhile. A modern rephrasing of "the pen is mightier than the sword." Spoken with this author's powerful skill and more powerful for us in today's vocabulary: a reason for hope.
Rating:  Summary: Best political story book... Review: Oriana wrote a wondeful story about A. Panagulisin Geece. This man tried to destroy Greece President using in the beginning guns and then only with his life, words and example. Oriana follows in love to him and staid with until he died killed by Greece Goverment men.Great!
Rating:  Summary: "And what do you think a man is?"...... Review: Perhaps one of the most powerful books ever in Western culture, this recasting of a profoundly human story cuts as deep to the core of the heart and soul as anything you will ever read. This isn't the pop trifle of mystery writers like Ludlum et al, but the dire consequences of becoming a true existential hero. Sartre and Camus should have had the huevos of Alekos. I first read this in the early 80's and have read it many times since. This is a story of bravery, of frustration, of human frailties, of the struggle of a people to wrest control of its destiny away from the merciless militaristic regime (anyone in America paying attention here?) in the very land where democracy was created, of a man dealing with his mysoginy, and a woman loving this man as he works through the conflicts that he has willingly inherited and just as willingly seeks to resolve. All the characters are flawed and that is why this is such a remarkable triumph. You will break down in tears as you move toward the inevitable conclusion. Greece has not had a hero like this since Socrates. And what all of them go through is more gut wrenching than anything you will ever read anywhere else. This is the story Costa-Gavres' "Z" was based on. By all means, if you care about freedom, the human soul, the passions that grip a man and a woman as they attempt to deal with the highly charged issues of their own romance while facing down a government prepared to grind them under the wheel, you have a moral imperative you owe to yourself to read this story. Oriana Fallaci is a remarkable, liberating writer. Whatever I have read by her has moved me, whether or not I agree with her opinions and directions. This book stripped my soul bare and made me ask myself more questions than anything I have ever read. Do you want to know hat is a man? Do you really want to know what is in the soul, the heart, the intelligence of a man? Are you really prepared to face the answers and implications of these questions?.....
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