"Shattering validity, exciting reading…Vassilikos’s gifts are dazzling." —The New York Times Book Review Praise for The Few Things I Know About Glafkos Thrassakis:

“A deft and witty reflection on writing as well as a moving portrait of the artist as political exile. . . .These passages recall Kundera at his most charmingly discursive. Yet whenever the book seems to be taking a reflective, historical direction, the biographer intrudes with ever more fantastical spy-novel details . ..By turns moving and scathingly satirical . . .Vassilikos has been too rarely translated into English; one can only hope this complex, multilayered novel will change that.”—Mary Park, New York Times Book Review