

This book seems to have a lot of negative reviews -the characters are mostly male and exude misogyny. This, however isn‘t surprising when you consider that it takes place in a traditional, patriarchal Greece of the 1940s. It‘s steeped in religious symbolism once you get past the womanizing of Zorba to realize he is the argument against living the pious life concerned with the hereafter and instead embrace life in the now, living with full force.