Description
| Product ID: | 9781788166355 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Satantango |
| Authors: | Author: Laszlo Krasznahorkai, Ottilie Mulzet, George Szirtes |
| Page Count: | 304 |
| Subjects: | Fiction and Related items, Fiction & related items, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Krasznahorkai's extraordinary first novel is back - and more devilish than ever. Translated by George SzirtesFrom the winner of the Man Booker International PrizeIn 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Tuskar Rock |
| Publisher Name: | Profile Books Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2020-11-05 |
