Story of a Stammer (Hardcover)

A novel of growing up a Hungarian in Romania under Communism. In the novel Story of a Stammer, Gabor Vida asks a fundamental question: Where does stammering come from? In the process of answering this question, he discovers that an entire historical period and an entire world have been stammering, too. Through Vida's eyes, we see that stammering comprises all the lies accumulated over time and over generations because nobody had ever articulated what they felt or thought, nor done what they really wanted. Nobody, Vida shows, had ever told the truth. Describing life in the 1970s and '80s under Romanian Communist dictator Nicolae Ceaucescu's authoritarian regime, Vida writes with disarming honesty, breaking taboos and chronicling the ways in which tyranny and exploitation seep into family relationships. The novel charts the first two decades of a young Hungarian man's life in Romania, telling a story of coming to terms with a stammer, loneliness, and an unstimulating environment where religion, alcoholism, and suicide are the most common escape strategies. A Bildungsroman, a novel about Transylvania, a chronicle of minority life, a sociological analysis of cultural identity, and ultimately a deeply personal account of a historical era, Story of a Stammer is a major contribution to contemporary Hungarian literature-an unfailingly serious yet humorously delightful witness to a turbulent period in recent history.

General

Imprint:	Seagull Books London Ltd
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	The Hungarian List
Release date:	June 2022
Authors:	Gabor Vida
Translators:	Jozefina Komporaly
Dimensions:	229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	412
ISBN-13:	978-0-85742-985-8
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > General
LSN:	0-85742-985-X
Barcode:	9780857429858

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