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Zorba the Greek

Nikos Kazantzakis
1946 · 368 pages

A bookish young Greek reopens a lignite mine on Crete and hires Alexis Zorba, an aging laborer who dances, plays the santuri, and treats his employer's reading as a substitute for living.

★ 6.5