Szilard Borbely The Dispossessed (Paperback)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: The DispossessedCondition: NewSubtitle: A NovelISBN-10: 0062364081EAN: 9780062364081ISBN: 9780062364081Publisher: HarperPerennialFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 12/15/2016Description: A literary sensation on its original publication in Hungary, this hypnotic, hauntingly beautiful first novel from the acclaimed, award-winning poet and author Szilard Borbely depicts the poverty and cruelty experienced by a partly-Jewish family in a rural village in the late 1960s and early 1970s. "No one has ever written so beautifully and at the same time so without pity about the suffering in the isolated provincial villages of Hungary...His sentences have a surgical precision, and their sustained rhythm only reinforces the power of what they evoke."-Nicole Henneberg, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung In a tiny village in northeast Hungary, close to the Romanian border, a young, unnamed boy warily observes day-to-day life and chronicles his family's struggles to survive. Like most of the villagers, his family is desperately poor, but their situation is worse than most-they are ostracized because of his father's Jewish heritage and his mother's connections to the Kulaks, who once owned land and supported the fascist Horthy regime before it was toppled by Communists.With unflinching candor, the little boy's observations are related through a variety of narrative voices-crude diatribes from his alcoholic father, evocative and lyrical tales of the past from his grandparents, and his own simple yet potent prose. Together, these accounts reveal not only the history of his family but that of Hungary itself, through the physical and psychic traumas of two World Wars to the country's treatment of Jews, both past and present. Drawing heavily on Borbely's memories of his own childhood, The Dispossessed is an extraordinarily realistic novel. Raw and often brutal, yet glimmering with hope, it is the crowning achievement of an uncompromising talent.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 203mmItem Length: 135mmItem Width: 17mmItem Weight: 225gGenre: FictionAuthor: Szilard BorbelyRelease Year: 2016 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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Publication Name: The Dispossessed

Title: The Dispossessed

Subtitle: A Novel

ISBN-10: 0062364081

EAN: 9780062364081

ISBN: 9780062364081

Release Date: 12/15/2016

Release Year: 2016

Country/Region of Manufacture: US

Book Title: Dispossessed : a Novel

Number of Pages: 304 Pages

Language: English

Publisher: HarperCollins

Item Height: 0.8 in

Topic: Family Life, Literary, Biographical, Historical, Jewish

Publication Year: 2016

Genre: Fiction

Item Weight: 8.1 Oz

Author: Szilard Borbely

Item Length: 8 in

Item Width: 5.3 in

Format: Trade Paperback