WINNER OF THE 2015 MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE
_War & War_ begins at a point of danger: on a dark train platform
Korim is on the verge of being attacked and robbed by thuggish
teenagers. From here, we are carried along by the insistent voice of
this nervous clerk. Desperate, at times almost mad, but also keenly
empathic, Korim has discovered in a small Hungarian town's archives an
antique manuscript of startling beauty: it narrates the epic tale of
brothers-in-arms struggling to return home from a disastrous war.
Korim is determined to do away with himself, but before he commits
suicide, he feels he must escape to New York with the precious
manuscript and commit it to eternity by typing it all out onto the
world wide web. Following Korim with obsessive realism through the
streets of New York (from his landing in a Bowery flophouse to his
move far uptown with a mad interpreter), _War and War_ relates his
encounters with a fascinating range of people in a world torn between
viciousness and mysterious beauty.
Following the eight chapters of _War & Wa_r is a short 'prequel acting
as a sequel', 'Isaiah', which brings us to a dark bar, years before in
Hungary, where Korim rants against the world and threatens suicide.
Written like nothing else (turning single sentences into chapters),
_War & War_ affirms W. G. Sebald's comment that Krasznahorkai's prose
far surpasses all the lesser concerns of contemporary writing.
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ISBN
9781782832393
Publisert
2018
Utgiver
Vendor
Tuskar Rock
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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