Also published as: Freedom or Death

Author: Nikos Kazantzakis Year: 1953 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Fiction, Classic Culture: Greece Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Amazon LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780571178575 057117857X

Freedom or Death by Nikos Kazantzakis is a novel on the heroic or epic scale about the rebellion of the Greek Christians against the Turks on the island of Crete, where Kazantzakis was from. The story follows the exploits of a Greek: Captain Michalis and his blood brother, Nurey Bey, a Turk, through war, love , friendship, hatred and a backdrop of the island of Crete with all its beauty, drama, joy and sadness. This book was unanimously praised by critics worldwide as the work of a master with characters that come to life and destined to live forever. Similar books: Christ Recrucified by Nikos Kazantzakis Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis Report to Greco by Nikos Kazantzakis Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens Room by Emma Donoghue Roots by Alex Haley Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder If on a winter's night a traveler by Italo Calvino The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner