Overview
Krasznahorkai's extraordinary first novel is back - and more devilish than ever.
Translated by George SzirtesFrom the winner of the Man Booker International PrizeIn the darkening embers of a Communist utopia, life in a desolate Hungarian town has come to a virtual standstill. Flies buzz, spiders weave, water drips and animals root desultorily in the barnyard of a collective farm. But when the charismatic Irimias - long-thought dead - returns, the villagers fall under his spell. Irimias sets about swindling the villagers out of a fortune that might allow them to escape the emptiness and futility of their existence. He soon attains a messianic aura as he plays on the fears of the townsfolk and a series of increasingly brutal events unfold.
- | Author: Laszlo Krasznahorkai, Ottilie Mulzet, George Szirtes
- | Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
- | Publication Date: Nov 05, 2020
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- | Binding: Paperback / softback
- | ISBN-13: 9781788166355
- | ISBN-10: 1788166353
