Summer Resort
Summer Resort, the first novel by noted translator Esther Kinsky, is set in a village somewhere on the endless Hungarian plain. It is the hottest summer in memory and everyone in the village dreams of the sweet life in udulo, a summer resort on a river. The characters that populate Summer Resort tell stories--comic, tragic, or both--of life in rural Hungary. Tales of onion kings and melon pickers, of scrapyards and sugar beet factories, paint a vivid and human picture of their world. In the course of the novel, the storytellers' paths intersect at the summer resort with the bar owner Lacibacsi, the Kozak Boys and their fat and pale wives, and…
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Weitere Autoren: Chalmers, Martin (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-1-906497-88-0
- EAN: 9781906497880
- Produktnummer: 10473220
- Verlag: Seagull Books London Ltd
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 108 S.
- Masse: H21.5 cm x B13.6 cm x D1.3 cm 238 g
- Gewicht: 238
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
Über den Autor
Esther Kinsky lives in Berlin and Battonya, Hungary. She is the author of a volume of poetry and has translated many notable Polish authors into German. Her second novel, Banatsko, is forthcoming. Martin Chalmers is a translator and editor living in Berlin. His translations include The Silences of Hammerstein, by Hans Magnus Enzensberger, also published by Seagull Books. Together, Kinsky and Chalmers translated Enzensberger's collection of poems, A History of Clouds: 99 Meditations, also published by Seagull Books.
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