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Zorba the Greek

Alexis Zorbas

1964

A buttoned-up English writer arrives in Crete to reopen a mine and befriends the exuberant, life-devouring Alexis Zorba, whose earthy wisdom and appetite for living gradually transform him. A beloved, soulful classic.

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The essential outsider encounter with modern Greece: an English writer arrives in Crete and experiences the island’s work, music, ritual, hardship, and appetite for life through Zorba.

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