The Sinistra Zone - Softcover

Bodor, Adam

 
9780811219785: The Sinistra Zone

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Entering a weird, remote hamlet, Andrei calls himself a simple wayfarer, but he is in fact highly compromised: he has no identity papers. Taken under the wing of the military zone s commander, Andrei is first assigned to guard the blueberries that supply a nearby bear reserve. He is surrounded by human wrecks, supernatural umbrellas, birds carrying plagues, albino twins.The bears and an affair with a married woman occupy Andrei until his protector is replaced by a new female commander, a slender creature, quiet,diaphanous, like a dragonfly, and yet an iron-fisted harridan. As things grow ever more alarming, Andrei becomes a corpse watchman, standing guard over the dead to check for any signs of life, and then

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

The author of ten volumes of fiction since 1969, Ádám Bodor is an award-winning, Transylvanian-born Hungarian writer.

Paul Olcháry has received grants from the NEA, PEN, and Hungary's Milán Fu]st Foundation.

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