A novel exploring the descent of superficially decent people into
vindictive killers. Â What could bring people to form a mob
and attack others? What circumstances could provoke a thirst for
blood at the market square? Who will gang up to batter their
neighbor, improbably returned from deportation? How can a person be
swept up among lynchers? Pál Závada’s novel examines and
analyses the anti-Semitic mass hysteria and political opportunism
surrounding the pogroms in Hungary that followed World War II and
the Holocaust. In May 1946, at the village market, Mária Csóka
witnessed a group of women set upon and beat to death a Jewish egg
seller. The wife of a schoolteacher accused of anti-Semitic
incitement, and daughter of a respected shopkeeper, Mária fears
for her husband’s life yet cannot ignore the victims. The
murderous fury spreads through the neighborhood like wildfire,
dragging out women, children, and the elderly alike. Mária’s
notes from the bloody day at the village market and from the
subsequent trial in Budapest testify to a state of human relations
that is intimately complex and irreparably scarred. Â
General
| Imprint: |
Seagull Books London Ltd
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Release date: |
June 2023 |
| Authors: |
Pál Závada
• Owen Good
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| Dimensions: |
9 x 6mm (L x W) |
| Format: |
Hardcover - Cloth over boards
|
| Pages: |
208 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-80309-160-0 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General
Promotions
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| LSN: |
1-80309-160-6 |
| Barcode: |
9781803091600 |
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