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Christian Dittus |
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THE BONE FIRE (Máglya)
In the wake of a violent and bloody revolution that ended in the televised execution of her country's former dictator, a thirteen year-old named Emma is rescued from the orphanage she calls home by a mysterious old woman who claims to be her grandmother. Stranger than the fact that Emma never knew she had one in the first place is the power her grandmother wields over the people and objects in her life: she divines fortunes from coffee grounds, conjures the faces of the dead out of flour on a table, and shares her house with the ghost of her dead husband.
THE BONE FIRE is the tale of the year that follows, the hardest of a young girl's life, as she comes of age as an outcast in a new town and a stranger in a new home, all while still grieving the loss of her parents. It's also a novel of magical thinking that borders on fable, one that uses a child's experience to tell the story of an Eastern European society emerging from the ruins of dictatorship, struggling to make sense of a painful past in a tumultuous and uncertain present.
In that regard, one can read THE BONE FIRE as a successor to Dragoman's first novel, THE WHITE KING, which is set in the same unnamed countryone clearly based on Ceaucescu's Romania, where Gyuri, an ethnic Hungarian living in Transylvania, spent the first 15 years of his life, before moving to Budapest, where he has lived ever since.
THE WHITE KING was published in thirty languages around the world, and in the nine years since the book's first publication in Hungary, Gyoergy Dragomán has been established as one of Europe's most important young writers, and the inheritor to the tradition established by Sandor Marai, Imre Kertesz, and Peter Nadas in his own country. He has won or been nominated for numerous prizesmost notably the Jan Michalski Prize, which he was awarded in 2011. Before achieving success as a novelist, he was best known for his translations into Hungarian of Joyce, Beckett, and Ian McEwan (among others), and he speaks English, German, French, Spanish and Romanian fluently. He is married to Anna Szabo, one of Hungary's most distinguished poets; they have two sons, Pal and Gabo.
(A Chris Parris-Lamb book for the Gernert Company)
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Deutsch von Lacy Kornitzer
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THE BONE FIRE is the tale of the year that follows, the hardest of a young girl's life, as she comes of age as an outcast in a new town and a stranger in a new home, all while still grieving the loss of her parents. It's also a novel of magical thinking that borders on fable, one that uses a child's experience to tell the story of an Eastern European society emerging from the ruins of dictatorship, struggling to make sense of a painful past in a tumultuous and uncertain present.
In that regard, one can read THE BONE FIRE as a successor to Dragoman's first novel, THE WHITE KING, which is set in the same unnamed countryone clearly based on Ceaucescu's Romania, where Gyuri, an ethnic Hungarian living in Transylvania, spent the first 15 years of his life, before moving to Budapest, where he has lived ever since.
THE WHITE KING was published in thirty languages around the world, and in the nine years since the book's first publication in Hungary, Gyoergy Dragomán has been established as one of Europe's most important young writers, and the inheritor to the tradition established by Sandor Marai, Imre Kertesz, and Peter Nadas in his own country. He has won or been nominated for numerous prizesmost notably the Jan Michalski Prize, which he was awarded in 2011. Before achieving success as a novelist, he was best known for his translations into Hungarian of Joyce, Beckett, and Ian McEwan (among others), and he speaks English, German, French, Spanish and Romanian fluently. He is married to Anna Szabo, one of Hungary's most distinguished poets; they have two sons, Pal and Gabo.
(A Chris Parris-Lamb book for the Gernert Company)
DER SCHEITERHAUFEN
Deutsch von Lacy Kornitzer
[HC Suhrkamp 10/15]
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