"Summer Resort," the first novel by noted translator Esther
Kinsky, is set in a village somewhere on the endless Hungarian
plain. It is the hottest summer in memory and everyone in the
village dreams of the sweet life in udulo, a summer resort on a
river. The characters that populate "Summer Resort" tell
stories--comic, tragic, or both--of life in rural Hungary. Tales of
onion kings and melon pickers, of scrapyards and sugar beet
factories, paint a vivid and human picture of their world.
In the course of the novel, the storytellers' paths intersect at
the summer resort with the bar owner Lacibacsi, the Kozak Boys and
their fat and pale wives, and the builder Antal, who introduces a
mysterious new woman to the inhabitants of the resort. The stranger
disrupts their otherwise staid summer routines--with surprising,
unpredictable consequences.
Now available for the first time in English, "Summer Resort
"brings to a new audience one of the most distinctive emerging
voices in recent German writing.
General
Imprint: |
Seagull Books London Ltd
|
Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Series: |
The German List |
Release date: |
May 2011 |
First published: |
June 2011 |
Authors: |
Esther Kinsky
|
Translators: |
Martin Chalmers
|
Dimensions: |
215 x 136 x 1mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover - Cloth over boards
|
Pages: |
108 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-906497-88-0 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General & literary fiction >
Modern fiction
|
LSN: |
1-906497-88-5 |
Barcode: |
9781906497880 |
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