War and War

Name: War and War
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ISBN: 9780811216098

ISBN-10: 0811216098

ISBN-13: 9780811216098

Edition: 2006

Authors: Laszlo Krasznahorkai, George Szirtes

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A novel of awesome beauty and power by the Hungarian master, László Krasznahorkai. Winner of a 2005 PEN Translation Fund Award. War and War, László Krasznahorkai's second novel in English from New Directions, begins at a point of danger: on a dark train platform Korim is on the verge of being attacked by thuggish teenagers and robbed; and from here, we are carried along by the insistent voice of this nervous clerk. Desperate, at times almost mad, but also keenly empathic, Korim has discovered in a small Hungarian town's archives an antique manuscript of startling beauty: it narrates the epic tale of brothers-in-arms struggling to return home from a disastrous war. Korim is determined to do…

Book details

List price: $18.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publication date: 4/17/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.20" wide x 8.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

Lï¿½szlï¿½ Krasznahorkai was born in Gyula, Hungary, in 1954. He has written five novels and won numerous prizes, including the International Man Booker Prize 2015, 2013 Best Translated Book Award in Fiction for Satantango, and 1993 Best Book of the Year Award in Germany for The Melancholy of Resistance.For more about Krasznahorkai, visit his extensive website: http://www.krasznahorkai.hu/