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A timeless masterpiece from one of the world's most distinguished writers

About the Author

L.szl. Krasznahorkai was born in Gyula, Hungary, in 1954. He has written five novels and won numerous prizes, including the 2013 Best Translated Book Award in Fiction for Satantango. In 1993, he won the Best Book of the Year Award in Germany for The Melancholy of Resistance and in 2015 was the winner of the Man Booker International Prize. For more about Krasznahorkai, visit his extensive website: http://www.krasznahorkai.hu/

Reviews

The universality of Krasznahorkai's vision rivals that of Gogol's Dead Souls and far surpasses all the lesser concerns of contemporary writing.
*W.G. Sebald*

The contemporary Hungarian master of apocalypse who inspires comparison with Gogol and Melville.
*Susan Sontag*

László Krasznahorkai writes prose of breathtaking energy and beauty. He manages to combine our most earthly concerns with large cosmic questions. His tones and textures are filled with both risk and certainty. He has elevated the novel form and is to be ranked among the great European novelists
*Colm Toibin*

Krasznahorkai is a visionary writer.
*Guardian*

Krasznahorkai is the kind of writer who at least once on every page finds a way of expressing something one has always sensed but never known, let alone been able to describe.
*Nicole Krauss*

As the worthy winner of this year's Man Booker International prize, Krasznahorkai throws down a challenge: raise your game or get your coat... the intensity of his commitment to the art of fiction is indisputable...exhilarating, even euphoric.
*The Guardian*

As always with Mr Krasznahorkai, real understanding remains beyond grasp, though a sense of illumination is pervasive. As a novelist he is a one-off, even if his work-as this book so finely shows-is universal.
*The Economist*

The latest and most luminous book to appear in English by the Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai... a devastatingly thoughtful, austere and contemplative book, written with a deep knowledge of artistic technique and human affairs that is rare among novelists.
*Daily Telegraph*

These captivating pages.
*New Statesman*