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Petros Markaris
The Game of Fear
Stories
Published by Diogenes as Das Spiel mit der Angst
Original Title: I techni tou tromou

In these stories, Detective Haritos is not the only one battling crime. An old painter who lived through war and hunger has to fight off hostilities and invents a game of fear. And finally, we meet a Greek and a Turk, two competing restaurant owners at daggers drawn. Yet when they happen to sit down at the same table to eat, they discover a few delectable similarities.

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Contemporary Literature
224 pages
2023

978-3-257-07260-0
Petros
Markaris

Petros Markaris, born in Istanbul in 1937, is a playwright and creator of a TV series who worked as an author with Theo Angelopoulos, and translated the works of German dramatists like Brecht and Goethe. He began writing crime novels in the mid-1990s, and became an international success. His accolades include the ›Pepe Carvalho Prize‹, the ›Goethe Medal‹ and an honorary doctorate from the University of Thessaloniki. Petros Markaris lives in Athens.

Photo: © Regine Mosimann / Diogenes Verlag
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Quotes

Lilian Neuman
La Vanguardia, Barcelona

»Remarkably, even though these stories revolve around ruins, loneliness and the forgotten, the focal point is on the good that a society – or a few people – can achieve in this world.«

Ángeles López
La Razón, Madrid

»Based on the best tradition of the crime novel, he consistently reminds us that no future is possible if we don’t fight those who trample on our dignity.«
López
La Razón
Madrid

Fernando R. Lafuente
ABC, Madrid

»Like Manuel Vázquez Montalbán and Andrea Camilleri, and, at times, Fred Vargas, Markaris modelled his detective on the Antipodes of the roman noir.«