Set before the start of the First World War, this moving fable sees a young English writer set out to Crete to claim a small inheritance. But when he arrives, he meets Alexis Zorba, a middle-aged Greek man with a zest for life. Zorba has had a family & many lovers, has fought in the Balkan wars, has lived & loved
- he is a simple but deep man who lives every moment fully & without shame. As their friendship develops, the Englishman is gradually won over, transformed & inspired along with the reader. Zorba the Greek, Nikos Kazantzakis` most popular & enduring novel, has its origins in the author`s own experiences in the Peleponnesus in the 1920s. His swashbuckling hero has legions of fans across the world & his adventures are as exhilarating now as they were on first publication in the 1950s. ” There can never be any doubt that Kazantzakis was the possessor of genius.” (Sunday Telegraph).