Metropole
Ferenc Karinthy author George Szirtes translator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Saqi Books
Published:15th May '08
Should be back in stock very soon
A linguist flying to a conference in Helsinki has landed in a strange city where he can't understand a word anyone says. As one claustrophobic day follows another, he wonders why no one has found him yet, whether his wife has given him up for dead, and how he'll get by in this society that looks so familiar, yet is so strange. In a vision of hell, unlike any previously imagined, Budai must learn to survive in a world where words and meaning are unconnected. This is a suspenseful and haunting Hungarian classic.
'A masterpiece.' Magazine Litteraire'A stunning novel.' Liberation'With time, Metropole will find its due place in the twentieth-century library, on the same shelf as The Trial and 1984.'G. O. Chateaureynaud
ISBN: 9781846590344
Dimensions: 200mm x 130mm x 20mm
Weight: 245g
279 pages