Adam Bodor

The Sinistra Zone (eBook, ePUB)

Übersetzer: Olchváry, Paul

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Lyrical, surreal, and yet unsettlingly realistic, The Sinistra Zone swims in the totalitarian backwaters of Eastern Europe

Entering a weird, remote hamlet, Andrei calls himself a simple wayfarer, but he is in fact highly compromised: he has no identity papers. Taken under the wing of the military zone's commander, Andrei is first assigned to guard the blueberries that supply a nearby bear reserve. He is surrounded by human wrecks, supernatural umbrellas, birds carrying plagues, albino twins.

The bears and an affair with a married woman occupy Andrei until his protector is replaced by a new female commander, a slender creature, quiet,diaphanous, like a dragonfly, and yet an iron-fisted harridan. As things grow ever more alarming, Andrei becomes a corpse watchman, standing guard over the dead to check for any signs of life, and then ...

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: New Directions
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780811219792
• Artikelnr.: 59590230

Autorenporträt

The author of ten volumes of fiction since 1969, Ádám Bodor is an award-winning, Transylvanian-born Hungarian writer.