Summer Resort - Rilegato

Kinsky, Esther

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ISBN 10: 1906497885 ISBN 13: 9781906497880

Casa editrice: Seagull Books, 2011

Riassunto

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 Üdülö, 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 the builder Antal, who introduces a mysterious new woman to the inhabitants of the resort. The stranger disrupts their otherwise staid summer routines—with surprising, unpredictable consequences.

Now available for the first time in English, Summer Resort brings to a new audience one of the most distinctive emerging voices in recent German writing.

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L'autore:

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 Chalmersis 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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Book by Kinsky Esther

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• Editore: Seagull Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1906497885
• ISBN 13: 9781906497880
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 108