Description
The reader arrives in Adam Bodor's world, the periphery of civilization, at the break of dawn. Adam, the foster son of Brigadier Anatol Korkodus is waiting at the dilapidated station for a boy who is arriving from a reformatory. Soon afterwards, Korkodus is arrested for unfathomable reasons. Yet this decaying and sinister world is not devoid of a certain joie de vivre: people eat gourmet dishes, point out their interlocutor's hidden motives with incredibly dark humor and enjoy the region's stunning natural beauty.
About the Author
Adam Bodor is an author of Transylvanian origin, born in Kolozsvar (today Cluj, Romania) in 1936. He is arguably Hungary's greatest living writer. Peter Sherwood studied Hungarian and linguistics in the University of London before being appointed, in 1972, to a lectureship in Hungarian at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies (now part of University College London). He taught there until 2007. From 2008 until his retirement in 2014 he was Laszlo Birinyi, Sr., Distinguished Professor of Hungarian Language and Culture in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Awards
Winner of Artist of the Nation - Hungary 2019.
Book Information
ISBN 9781914990038
Author Adam Bodor
Format Hardback
Page Count 280
Imprint Jantar Publishing Ltd
Publisher Jantar Publishing Ltd
About the Author
Adam Bodor is an author of Transylvanian origin, born in Kolozsvar (today Cluj, Romania) in 1936. He is arguably Hungary's greatest living writer. Peter Sherwood studied Hungarian and linguistics in the University of London before being appointed, in 1972, to a lectureship in Hungarian at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies (now part of University College London). He taught there until 2007. From 2008 until his retirement in 2014 he was Laszlo Birinyi, Sr., Distinguished Professor of Hungarian Language and Culture in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Awards
Winner of Artist of the Nation - Hungary 2019.
Book Information
ISBN 9781914990038
Author Adam Bodor
Format Hardback
Page Count 280
Imprint Jantar Publishing Ltd
Publisher Jantar Publishing Ltd
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