Nikos Kazantzakis Oi Aderfofades (The Fratricides) Printed in Athens in the Printing House of Gerasimos Georgiadis in 1963 Original Soft Binding with Dust Jacket Dust Jucket with light signs of age and use. The book in near mint condition! 8vo, Pages 319 First Edition Nikos Kazantzakis (Νίκος Καζαντζάκης 1883-1957) was a Greek writer, journalist, politician, poet and philosopher. Widely considered a giant of modern Greek literature, he was nominated for the Nobel Prize in nine different years, and remains the most translated Greek author worldwide. Here, a scarce Copy of this First Edition! The Fratricides is about internecine strife in a village in the Epirus during the Greek civil war of the late 1940s. Many of the villagers, including Captain Drakos, son of the local priest Father Yanaros, have taken to the mountains and joined the Communist rebels. It is Holy Week and, with murder, death and destruction everywhere, Father Yanaros feels that he himself is bearing the sins of the world. (From the publisher)