The Birthday Party

A brilliant modern fairy tale by the highly praised author of Little Infamies and The Maze.

It is the summer of 1975. As dawn breaks on a small private island off the Mediterranean coast, Marco Timoleon, an aging tycoon, wakes up to see the final preparations for his troubled daughter’s twenty-fifth birthday party. Having found out that she is pregnant by a man he doesn’t approve of, he secretly intends to persuade her to terminate the pregnancy- the family doctor stands by to perform the operation on the spot. But as the day unfolds, his plan is put to the test and comes to an unexpected conclusion.