Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Péter Zilahy was born in 1970 in Budapest, Hungary. He is a writer and performer with diverse interests. His books have been translated into 18 languages. In 2001 he was a lecturer at New York University. His dictionary-novel ‘The Last Window-Giraffe’ won the Book of the Year Prize in Ukraine in 2003.
Lawrence Norfolk is the author of three novels, including ‘In the Shape of a Boar’.
Tim Wilkinson worked as an academic editor in Hungary in the 1970s. Alongside a number of translations of historical works, he has translated three novels by Imre Kertész.
<p>'Zilahy's account is often funny, but always raw and direct: a far cry from the nostalgic soup often poured over the spectre of 1968.' —Philip Oltermann, ‘The Independent’</p>
<p>'Not only a great piece of literature but a visual feast as well.' —Julian Evans, ‘BBC’</p>
<p>'In these bittersweet pages you will find the fall of the regimes, and the last twenty years of Eastern Europe.' —Enrico Remmert, ‘Rolling Stone Magazine’</p>
<p>'Originally a poet, Zilahy writes with clarity and economy.' —Tibor Fischer, ‘The Telegraph’</p>
<p>'Zilahy delivers a generational confession…' —‘Times Literary Supplement’</p>
<p>'A remarkable and best-selling author… Peter Zilahy has written a book that almost defies description.' —Ian McMillan, ‘The Verb’, BBC Radio 3 </p>
<p>'Zilahy captures the ‘Groundhog Day’ feeling of the protests in Belgrade... ' —‘Time Out’</p>
<p>'It captures what was a near-universal local experience so well, a transition that is monumental and yet oddly anti-climactic… And it's a very good-looking book, too.' — ‘The Complete Review’</p>
This book is about the madness of everyday life under a dictatorship. It shifts in theme and time, testing the borderlines of prose and poetry, fiction and non-fiction, history and autobiography – all in the unassuming guise of a child’s ABC. Filled with his own striking photographs, Péter Zilahy gives fascinating insight into whole other universe behind the Iron Curtain. ‘The Last Window-Giraffe’ is one of the most unusual, beguiling books you will ever read.
This dictionary-novel of dictatorship is a thrilling personal journey behind the Iron Curtain – and like nothing you have read before.
Foreword by Lawrence Norfolk; A-Z Entries; Biographical Index
Péter Zilahy is just the vagabond polymath the New Europe needs. Don't wait. Climb aboard the rollercoaster today. Read ‘The Last Window-Giraffe’ as an elaborate, erudite, gut-wrenching belly-laugh at everything that went wrong and all the people who failed to fix it.' —Lawrence Norfolk, author of ‘In the Shape of a Boar’
An inventive and humorous dictionary-novel of dictatorship, and a thrilling personal journey behind the Iron Curtain.
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Péter Zilahy was born in 1970 in Budapest, Hungary. He is a writer and performer with diverse interests. His books have been translated into 18 languages. In 2001 he was a lecturer at New York University. His dictionary-novel ‘The Last Window-Giraffe’ won the Book of the Year Prize in Ukraine in 2003.
Lawrence Norfolk is the author of three novels, including ‘In the Shape of a Boar’.
Tim Wilkinson worked as an academic editor in Hungary in the 1970s. Alongside a number of translations of historical works, he has translated three novels by Imre Kertész.