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Voyage To Kazohinia

Sandor Szathmari author Inez Kemenes author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:New Europe Books

Published:27th Sep '12

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Direct mail/email campaign and more targeted outreach (e.g. via social media) to academics (especially those specializing in satirical and dystopian/utopian literature) Perhaps a 2nd edition at some point targeting academia, with a VIP foreword and notes FROM THE 2012 PUBLICATION: Wide distribution of print ARC's and e-galleys yielded some reviews Online advertising Targeted print advertising Launch in New York City hosted by the Hungarian Cultural Center/Hungarian consulate—with a roundtable discussion involving prominent US academics and writers

A page-turning classic--comic, eerily timely--novel that stands alongside Brave New World and Gulliver's TravelsS ndor Szathm ri's comical novel chronicles the travels of a modern Gulliver on the eve of World War II. A shipwrecked English ship's surgeon finds himself on an unknown island whose inhabitants, the Hins, live in a technologically advanced existence without emotions, desires, arts, money or politics. Soon unhappy with this bleak perfection, Gulliver asks to be admitted to the closed settlement of the Behins, beings with souls and atavistic human traits. But he's seen nothing yet...

"A page-turner for both the adult as well as the adolescent reader, Voyage to Kazohinia is a classic waiting to be discovered by every literate person. This newly translated and profoundly transformative novel ought to be taught in high schools and colleges across the English-speaking world. " --David Mandler, PhD, English Teacher at Stuyvesant High School, New York City "Massively entertaining! . . . Make room for the new Gulliver. He has brought home news out of Kazohinia." -- Gregory Maguire, author of Wicked and Out of Oz “Written in 1935, Voyage to Kazohinia is a strikingly postmodern and open-ended dystopia that rightfully belongs among the twentieth-century classics of the genre. And it is unique in being less a strident political cautionary tale than it is a brilliantly mordant reflection on government, reason, and language.” —Carter Hanson, Associate Professor of English, Valparaiso University “[A] dystopian cult classic. . . . Gulliver washes up on the island of Kazohinia, which is populated by bizarre inhabitants . . . whose sense of morality and society force [him] to reconsider his own understanding of life, love, and death.” —Publishers Weekly “Highly entertaining. . . . Readers familiar with the classic Swift satire will find much to admire here, but those unfamiliar with Gulliver’s Travels should still have a good time.” —Booklist "A satire on our world of power politics... clever and inventive." -- Allan Massie, The Wall Street Journal

ISBN: 9780982578124

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 434g

360 pages