The Sinistra Zone - Couverture souple

Bodor, Adam

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 081121978X ISBN 13 : 9780811219785

Editeur : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2013

Synopsis

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 ...

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

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

Paul Olcháry has received grants from the NEA, PEN, and Hungary's Milán Fu]st Foundation.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 081121978X
• ISBN 13: 9780811219785
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 208
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• Personne responsable: non disponible