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WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE 2025

In the darkening embers of a Communist utopia, life in a desolate Hungarian town has come to a virtual standstill. Flies buzz, spiders weave, water drips and animals root desultorily in the barnyard of a collective farm.

But when the charismatic Irimias - long-thought dead - returns, the villagers fall under his spell. Irimias sets about swindling the villagers out of a fortune that might allow them to escape the emptiness and futility of their existence. He soon attains a messianic aura as he plays on the fears of the townsfolk and a series of increasingly brutal events unfold.
Translated by George Szirtes and Ottilie Mulzet

Book details

Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Satantango
• Author: László Krasznahorkai
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304
• EAN: 9781788166355
• ISBN: 1788166353
• ID: 28218022
• Publisher: Profile Books
• Weight: 249 g
• Dimensions: 198 × 131 × 22 mm
• Date of publishing: 05. November 2020

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