In store now! Satantango by Laszlo Krasznahorkai, translated by George Szirtes and Ottilie Mulzet
First published in 1985, this dark, bleakly funny novel is now regarded as a classic.
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Satantango by Laszlo Krasznahorkai, translated by George Szirtes and Ottilie Mulzet
Paperback RRP £9.99
Translated by George Szirtes From the winner of the Man Booker International Prize.
In 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.
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