num_pages: 493
description: Already ​hailed in Europe as a masterpiece, Oriana Fallaci's powerful new novel is the dramatic love story of a man and a woman who are caught in the conflicts of political struggle and are moved inexorably toward a confrontation with death.In A Man Fallaci draws a dynamic portrait of the unparalleled hero of the Greek resistance, Alexander Panagoulis, who was condemned to death for attempting to assassinate dictator George Papadopoulos. Save from execution, Panagoulis was instead subjected to years of imprisonment and torture, only to be freed by general amnesty. Released from prison, he meets the woman with whom he falls passionately in love and witch whom he lives as he continues to gather evidence against corrupt government leaders.Acclaimed by European critics as „a great novel of dramatic adventure” , a work „of invention and documentation, of record and interpretation, a monument of fierce fidelity and of poetic, free creative infidelity, an impassioned and violent book” A MAN was described by Fallaci herself in a recent interview : „ A book about the loneliness of the individual, who refuses to be catalogued, schematized, categorized by fashions, ideologies, societies, power. A book about the tragedy of a poet who doesn't want to be, and isn't, a mass man, the instrument of those who command, those who promise, those who frighten… It is a book about the hero who fights alone for freedom and for truth, never giving up, and so he dies, killed by all: by the masters and by the servants, by the violent and by the indifferent.”Unrelenting in its power and its vision searing in its indictment of tyranny and opression, triumphant in its portrayal of a modern hero, A MAN is an unforgettable literary experience.
language: English
title: A Man
titlecomplete: A Man
genres: Italian Literature, Classics, Roman, Italy, Novels, Romance, Historical Fiction, Literature, Fiction, Politics
ratings_count: 5360
publisher: Arrow