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The Sinistra Zone

The Sinistra Zone


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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 … 

About the Author :
The author of ten volumes of fiction since 1969, Adam Bodor is an award-winning, Transylvanian-born Hungarian writer. Paul Olchary has received grants from the NEA, PEN, and Hungary's Milan Fust Foundation.

Review :
"If there's a magic realism Eastern-bloc style, The Sinistra Zone is surely its paradigm." -- Alison McCulloch - The New York Times Book Review "A fascinating novel that links intense realism with a boundless imagination, as if it could have written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez." -- Die Zeit "The Sinistra Zone begins a la Chandler. But that's not how it continues. Like all good things, it embodies a wealth of possibilities: it can be read as a sociological intelligence briefing; a political/cultural situation report; a supplication; a finely wrought, postmodern feat of literary virtuosity; a chronicle of a bygone world, and so on. Again and again I was amazed by the fullness of the words, by the compact and luminous text - by the rich and powerful fabric that Adam Bodor has woven into these pages." -- Peter Esterhazy "It is hard to find in contemporary European literature a satire more dark and brutal and yet at the same time, more lyrical than this book." -- El Pais "The Sinistra Zone is a small masterpiece of stunning beauty that begs to be savored slowly." -- La Vanguardia


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780811219785
  • Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
  • Publisher Imprint: New Directions Publishing Corporation
  • Height: 203 mm
  • No of Pages: 208
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 15 mm
  • Width: 135 mm
  • ISBN-10: 081121978X
  • Publisher Date: 06 Sep 2013
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Returnable: Y
  • Weight: 200 gr


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