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Translated by George Szirtes From the winner of the Man Booker International Prize In 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.

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A modern masterpiece that manages to speak both of its time and to transcend it altogether * Sunday Telegraph *
A monster of a novel: compact, cleverly constructed, often exhilarating * Guardian *

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A Paperback / softback by Laszlo Krasznahorkai, George Szirtes, Ottilie Mulzet

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    Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
    Publication Date: 05/11/2020
    ISBN13: 9781788166355, 978-1788166355
    ISBN10: 1788166353
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    Description

    Book Synopsis
    Translated by George Szirtes From the winner of the Man Booker International Prize In 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.

    Trade Review
    A modern masterpiece that manages to speak both of its time and to transcend it altogether * Sunday Telegraph *
    A monster of a novel: compact, cleverly constructed, often exhilarating * Guardian *

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