Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming
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U Lužického semináře 10, Malá Strana
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Profile Books Ltd
UK
2021
Main
Paperback
576
Standard
305651
978-1-78125-892-7
1-78125-892-9
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Annotation
Hailed internationally as perhaps the most important novel of the young twenty-first century, Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming is the culmination of Laszlo Krasznahorkai's remarkable and singular career. Nearing the end of his life, Baron Bela Wenckheim decides to return to the provincial Hungarian town of his birth. Having escaped from his many casino debts in Buenos Aires, where he was living in exile, he wishes to be reunited with his high-school sweetheart Marika. What follows is an endless storm of gossip, con men and local politicians, vividly evoking the small town's alternately drab and absurd existence. Spectacular actions are staged, death and the abyss loom, until finally doom is brought down on the unsuspecting residents of the town.
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