Victims of Peace

In my pre-blog era I had read a book ('Victims of Peace' by Vassilis Vassilikos) and wrote an admittedly tiny review of it that was then emailed to several friends. Recently seeing the book on the shelve reminded me of the review and thought it fits well in this blog especially under recent circumstances of non-updatedness.

In a blatant attempt at Self-Plagiarism:

I've read a (greek) book whose title loosely translates into "Victims of Peace".
Overall it's pretty good. Me loves the writing style. Kind of cryptic. It's one of those almost self-referencing things (see "This statement is false") but in a completely story-telling novel way. Doesn't make sense? Sorry, can't express it...
Maybe this will help: In the story, one of the characters is an author who writes the book "Victims of Peace" about his friends. Half the book is mainly an introduction of the characters and the other half puts them together with a common goal. So the question is, which book was i talking about??? The real or the book in the plot. Both.... Along the same lines there's more stuff, on how the book is written: The author of the "real" book dictates the fate of the heroes (cause he writes it). But at the same time, the heroes in the book talk about how the hero author dictates their lives with his book story... weird... but fun.
Also, it so happens that the hero author's girlfriend is named Eirini which means "Peace". Was he a victim of his Love? Is that why he chose the title. no. doesn't seem so. but still a twist. funny.
Overall a good read.