Description
Book SynopsisLyrical, surreal, and yet unsettlingly realistic,
The Sinistra Zone swims in the totalitarian backwaters of Eastern Europe
Trade Review"If there’s a magic realism Eastern-bloc style,
The Sinistra Zone is surely its paradigm." -- Alison McCulloch - The New York Times Book Review
"A fascinating novel that links intense realism with a boundless imagination, as if it could have written by Gabriel García Márquez." -- Die Zeit
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The Sinistra Zone begins a la Chandler. But that's not how it continues. Like all good things, it embodies a wealth of possibilities: it can be read as a sociological intelligence briefing; a political/cultural situation report; a supplication; a finely wrought, postmodern feat of literary virtuosity; a chronicle of a bygone world, and so on. Again and again I was amazed by the fullness of the words, by the compact and luminous text — by the rich and powerful fabric that Ádám Bodor has woven into these pages." -- Péter Esterházy
"It is hard to find in contemporary European literature a satire more dark and brutal and yet at the same time, more lyrical than this book." -- El País
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The Sinistra Zone is a small masterpiece of stunning beauty that begs to be savored slowly." -- La Vanguardia
